The Lancet, Volume 359, Issue 9310 , Page 908, 16 March 2002
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)08016-9Cite or Link Using DOI Hot,
cold, and now bubble fusion For almost 50 years now, physicists
have been trying to mimic energy-producing mechanisms that the
sun uses. It is very difficult to persuade two people who
naturally repel each other to come together-and so it is with
nuclear fusion. The hydrogen bomb, a fusion device, needs an
atom bomb to get it started. Huge and very expensive experiments
with “hot” fusion are still in progress, but a commercially
viable machine seems as far away as ever. Then, in 1989, came
“cold” fusion. Perhaps deuterium a ... This article is made
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