The article reports that Purdue university cited Taleyarkhan for two instances of research misconduct and imposed sanctions on him two months ago.

See the inside baseball in the story development here http://newenergytimes.com/BubbleTrouble/2008PhysicsTodayStoryDevelopment.htm

Bennett Daviss wrote an article for New Scientist on May 3 as a follow-up piece to the in-depth article on the SPAWAR San Diego research by Steven Krivit and Daviss published in New Energy Times in November.

For the record, the term “cold fusion” was never chosen by Fleischmann and Pons; it was wished on them [...]

Scientists at the U.S. Navy’s San Diego SPAWAR Systems Center have produced something unique in the 17-year history of the scientific drama historically known as cold fusion: simple, portable, highly repeatable, unambiguous, and permanent physical evidence of nuclear events using detectors that have a long track record of reliability and acceptance among nuclear physicists.

Using a [...]

Papers accepted by Physical Review Letters this past week show that the theoretical speculations by Brian Naranjo and Seth Putterman of UCLA, on which Reich/Nature based their assertions of “hot air” by Taleyarkhan do not match empirical examinations.

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