The book focuses on the properties of gaseous plasmas needed in the attainment of
controlled fusion reactions. The first five chapters develop the fundamentals of plasma
physics and present the conditions of nuclear fusion reactions. The next four provide a …

Introduction The strange behaviour of electrogenerated hydrogen disolved in palladium has
been studied for well over 100 years and lately these studies have been extended to
deuterium and tritium (1). For discharge of deuterium from alkaline solutions of heavy water …

FUSION of the nuclei of isotopes of hydrogen is the principal means of energy production in the
high-temperature interiors of stars. In relatively cold terrestrial conditions, the nuclei are surrounded
by electrons and can approach one another no more c!.osely than is allowed by the molecular …

A mutant unable to fuse nuclei during mating has been isolated from standard wild-type
Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Tetrad analysis of the mutation responsible for this defect (kar1-
1) shows that it segregates as a single Mendelian factor. The defect kn kaf1-1 appears to be …

As a form of matter intermediate between molecules and bulk solids, atomic clusters have
been much studied 1. Light-induced processes in clusters can lead to photo-fragmentation
2, 3 and Coulombic fission 4, producing atom and ion fragments with a few electronvolts …

Recent theoretical advances in the study of heavy-ion fusion reactions below the Coulomb
barrier are reviewed. Particular emphasis is given to new ways of analyzing data (such as
studying barrier distributions), new approaches to channel coupling (such as the path …

The KAR3 gene is essential for yeast nuclear fusion during mating, and its expression is
strongly induced by α factor. The predicted KAR3 protein sequence contains two globular
domains separated by an α-helical coiled coil. The carboxy-terminal domain is homologous …

The review begins by grouping the fundamental nuclear reactions into two classifications,
namely, the usual binary processes and few-particle processes. In the few-particle
processes, the possibility of electron-screened cold fusion is remarked. The special features …

When, through radiation or other causes, chromosomes are broken within a single nucleus,
2-by-2 fusions may occur between the broken ends. These fusionsmay lead to
rearrangements of parts of the chromatin com-plement, giving rise to variouschrorrosomal …

Recent experiments on the interaction of intense, ultrafast laser pulses with large van der
Waals bonded clusters have shown that these clusters can explode with substantial kinetic
energy. By driving explosions in deuterium clusters with a 35 fs laser pulse, we have …