
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, June 8, 1990                   TAG: 9006080411
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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TAINTED-METAL FINDING HURTS COLD-FUSION CLAIM

Three top laboratories whose work supported low-temperature nuclear fusion said Thursday that their experiments had used palladium metal from a company whose product was contaminated with tritium, a byproduct of fusion.

The disclosure cast a cloud on experimental results from some of the most respected laboratories that still professed to find puzzling evidence that cold fusion might be real.

Those laboratories had cited the presence of tritium as evidence of nuclear fusion. - The New York Times

by CNB