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Observation of Nuclear Fusion Driven by a Pyroelectric Crystal

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Published: Thursday, 13 November 08 - 10:16 PM (GMT)
Last Updated: Thursday, 13 November 08 - 10:19 PM (GMT)

UCLA scientists have developed a tabletop system capable of generating small-scale nuclear fusion.

Researchers at UCLA have identified a method for generating fusion under desktop condition by using the extremely large electric fields produced during the heating of a pyroelectric crystal to accelerate deuterium ions into collisions that generate the fusion. MORE [2005-363]

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