Career
On March 23, 1989, while Pons was the chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Utah, he and Fleischmann announced the experimental production of "N-Fusion", which was quickly labeled by the press as cold fusion. After a short period of public acclaim, hundreds of scientists attempted to reproduce the effects but generally failed. After the claims were found to be unreproducible, the scientific community determined the claims were incomplete, and inaccurate.In 2009, Mike McKubre, of SRI experimentally showed a one to one correspondence of helium, He, production and heat production in Fleischmann Pons type cells with palladium and deuterium. He found a Q value of 31MeV/atom. The difference from the expected 23.8MeV/atom is most likely due to retained He in the palladium. This was an extension of the work done by Miles at Navy Laboratory (NAWCWD) at China Lake, California (1990-1994).
Pons moved to France in 1992, along with Fleischmann, to work at a Toyota-sponsored laboratory. The laboratory closed in 1998 after a ₤12 million research investment with no results. He gave up his US citizenship and became a French citizen.
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