1990 Volume 39 Issue 12 Pages 709-716
A review of the investigations on “Cold Fusion” is given. A brief history of developments of cold fusion researches is described. Representatives of excess heat generation, tritium production and neutron emmission in mainly electrolysis of D2O, i. e., Fleischmann-Pons experiments, are involved. Other experimental results suggesting the occurrence of a fusion reaction and the models proposed to account for the observations are also given.