Taleyarkhan

Taleyarkhan was co-editor of the journal, and the paper was only peer-reviewed by his co-editor, with Taleyarkhan's knowledge.

In 2002 Taleyarkhan filed a patent application on behalf of the United States Department of Energy, while working in Oak Ridge.

In January 2006, a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters by Taleyarkhan in collaboration with researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute reported statistically significant evidence of fusion. citation * citation * citation ".

In July 2005, two of Taleyarkhan's students at Purdue University published evidence confirming the previous result.

In summary, Taleyarkhan's colleagues at Purdue said he placed obstacles to peer review of his experiments, and they had serious doubts about the validity of the research.

In the 2006 Nature report they detail several troubling issues when trying to collaborate with Taleyarkhan.

In their response (published on the same page), the Taleyarkhan team provided detailed counter-arguments and concluded that the energy was "reasonably close" to that which was expected from a fusion reaction.