Concerns grow over secrecy of bubble-fusion inquiry

Nature : As a way to resolve a scientific dispute, it was always likely to be fraught. In March 2005, nuclear engineer Rusi Taleyarkhan of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana âmdash; known for his controversial claims to have achieved ‘bubble fusion’ âmdash; formally joined forces with one of his most prominent critics, physicist Seth Putterman of the University of California, Los Angeles.