European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 03, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 3, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 Many experts turn cold shoulder on claim cold fusion produced by the Baltimore Sun Baltimore the High powered world of physics finally aimed its big guns monday night at the controversial cold fusion discovery announced in March and a Clear consensus emerged the Utah Experiment that reportedly produced fusion at room temperature was erroneous. Researchers at the Spring meeting of the american physical society in Baltimore asserted that the two chemists who announced their controversial fusion re sults March 23 in Utah had misinterpreted their data. At this Point there is no evidence for anything other than conventional chemistry in the Experiment said chemist Nathan Lewis at the California Institute of technology. We have no reason to invoke fusion to explain any of their  although the meeting follows by just three weeks a National convention of chemists that May have rep resented the High Point in scientific acceptance of the Utah claim that was time enough for Many laboratories to Complete their preliminary attempts to duplicate the Experiment. Most of the scientific papers presented in the special fusion session at the conference echoed Cal tech s blast at b. Stanley pins of the University of Utah and electro chemist Martin Fleischmann of Britain whose results have led to widespread speculation that room temperature fusion could solve the world s Energy woes. Monday night scientists from prominent research groups at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Oak the i do acc a paper prepared by Ronald Parker director of the plasma fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of technology said that the Utah chemists misinterpreted readings of radiation emission by the cold fusion Experiment. Lewis of Cal tech expressed Confidence that his school s attempt to duplicate the Experiment a Breakneck Effort begun the evening of the announcement was comprehensive and that the detection of excess heat was a simple error by pops and Reischmann resulting from not adequately stirring the chemical solution. He also said that the helium detected by some re searchers and considered evidence of fusion was prob groups a inc Lawrence Arlidge National Laboratory Ohio state University and a University of Rochester reported finding no Coj in acc for cold fusion. Ably a false Reading caused by Small amounts of the gain Laboratory air. People wanted to believe this he said. Bui we found no evidence for any unknown nuclear  Pons and Fleischmann called their unusual news conference in Salt Lake City on March 23 to announce that they had achieved in a simple Laboratory apparatus a novel new form of nuclear fusion that produced More Energy than it consumed a goal of physicists forbore than 30 years. Traditional hot fusion research has attempted to mimic in huge expensive machines the High tempera Ture High pressure conditions under which the Energy of stars is produced when Hydrogen atoms fuse to re lease heat Energy and radiation and form a heavier Clement helium. But the Utah fusion Experiment consisted Only of a Battery and two precious Metaj electrodes a palladium Rod and a Coil of Fine Platinum wire immersed in heavy water in which the Hydrogen atoms have been replaced with two atoms of a Hydrogen isotope known As deuterium. And the startling results a release of heat Energy four times the amount needed to run the Experiment suggested to Pons that deuterium atoms were being concentrated into spaces within the lattice like atomic Structure of palladium forcibly enough to cause fusion. Before a recent congressional hearing Pons said he and his colleague arc sure As sure can be they achieved fusion rather than a chemical reaction the explanation favored by Many physicists because of the Low Levels of radiation byproducts normally associated with deuterium fusion. In the weeks since the Utah news conference there have been a Host of partial confirmations and total rejections of the Utah results from laboratories around the world including at least two that recanted their initial support for the cold fusion theory. Support for the Utah results not necessarily for their claim that fusion is responsible has come recently from Stanford University which found their Experiment produced 50 percent More Power than put in and the italian National Agency for nuclear and alternative Energy which measured Levels of radiation 100 times that expected. But no laboratories have totally duplicated the re sults. To masks out sending a message a filipino stands out in a sea of faces monday with a to shirt that proclaims is. Bases out the Man raised the to shirt during a labor Day rally in Manila. At least 25,000 people attended the rally in which the May first movement urged followers to prepare for a nationwide strike to press for higher wages. Bush accused of nuke leadership failure Washington a former arms negotiator Paul Warnke criticized the Bush administration on monday for failing to assert leadership and Avert an argument raging in the nato Alliance Over Short Range nuclear weapons. There has been no american leadership whatsoever said Warnke and As a result we have a very Sharp dispute Over a silly  Warnke chief arms negotiator for then president Carter recommended that the North Atlantic treaty organization stick to agreements reached in the Alliance in i98t and 1988 to modernize . Lance tactical missiles in West Germany. At the same time Wamic said nato should open negotiations with the soviet Union about eliminating the entire class of nuclear missiles with ranges of under 300 Miles and therefore not subject to the inter mediate Range nuclear Force pact which took effect last year. The dispute Over modernizing Short Range nuclear weapons has pitted West there has been no american leadership  Paul Warnke German Chancellor Helmut Kohl against British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and president Bush. Kohl and Thatcher held what they called Frank and intensive talks on the Issue Sun Day in decides him West Germany but parted in disagreement. We still have quite a lot of work to do Kohl said after the meeting although predicting that an agreement was possible be fore a nato Summit in Brussels Belgium this month. Kohl whose party faces Lough election next year wants nato to begin negotiations with the soviet bloc on the Issue and to delay until at least 1992 a decision on Lance modernization. Thatcher said eliminating Short Range nuclear weapons would mean that the soviet Union will have achieved its objective of gelling land base nuclear weapons out of Europe. This i be Lieve would be  Wamic said nato could finesse the Issue by entering negotiations while stipulating that the Western Alliance would no eliminate its Short Range nuclear weapons until the soviet led Warsaw pact sharply reduced its conventional forces in Europe thereby removing the threat that the Lance is intended to Deal with said Wamic. The existing Short Range Force should not be a priority Warnke said at a break fast meeting with reporters. It docs not seem to me that we need either to eliminator modernize tactical nuclear  they can Only be used if the russians invade Western Europe. You Are not going to blow up the men s room in the Kremlin with the Lance which cannot reach beyond German Borders Sai Warnke who was assistant Secretary of de sense from 1967 through 1969 and the head of the arms control and disarmament Agency in 1977 and 1978, Wamic also urged the Bush admin Stra Tion to move More quickly to take advantage of conventional arms conc sessions made by soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Squeezed most Albany . Up1 a study of new York s Lemon Law shows general motors ears leaving the surest taste among american models. Almost half the 882 refunds or replacement vehicles ordered for Lemon owners in 1988 went to pm buyers attorney general Robert Abrams said monday. 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