| Title | KUER News reports on cold fusion research |
| Media Number | A0336_002 |
| Description | Side A: 1. April 21. Georgia Tech discovers their fusion experiment is flawed; other experimental work; work at Los Alamos; funding from State of Utah; formation of advisory committee. 2. April 28. Visit of Utah Senator Orrin Hatch to U. of Utah; chastisement by Nature magazine; confirmation of fusion research by other groups; federal funding of research; excerpt of musical parody. 3. May 5. Government committee questions the findings of Pons and Fleischman; criticism by Nature magazine and research groups; response from U. of Utah administration to critics; formalizing of agreement with Los Alamos; activities of Pons and Fleischman. 26 minutes. Side B: 1. May 15. Progress on collaboration with Los Alamos; support from James Fletcher; comments of various scientists; disputes over validity of findings. 2. May 19. Status of Pons' and Fleischman's research; legal negotiations on patents and work with Los Alamos; attempted duplication at the U. of Utah's College of Mines and Engineering and NASA; discussions with industry representatives. 3. May 29. Conference at Los Alamos; Brigham Young University experiment confirmation; U. of Utah experiment confirmation; experiment at Austin, TX; update on world research. 26 minutes. |
| Creator | KUER (Radio station : Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| Date | 1989-04; 1989-05 |
| Subject | Cold fusion; News recordings; Nuclear energy--Research--United States; Nuclear fusion; Laboratories; Electronic ceramics--Chemistry; University of Utah--History--20th century; Hatch, Orrin, 1934-2022; Pons, Bobby Stanley, 1943- ; Fleischmann, Martin, 1927-2012; University of Utah College of Mines and Earth Sciences--History--20th century; Brigham Young University--History--20th century; Texas A&M University--History--20th century; Georgia Tech University--History--20th century; Los Alamos National Laboratory--History--20th century |
| Collection Number and Name | A0336 Cold Fusion audiovisual collection |
| Holding Institution | Multimedia Archives, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Genre | audiocassettes |
| Type | Sound |
| Format | audio/mpeg |
| Extent | 00:53:29 |
| Rights | |
| Finding Aid | https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv136481 |
| ARK | ark:/87278/s6f8kng9 |
| Setname | uum_avacr |
| ID | 2898141 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6f8kng9 |