DESERET NEWS, March 23, 1989: University of Utah officials were to announce Thursday a breakthrough in fusion energy that reports say could provide virtually unlimited, clean and inexpensive energy . . .
"Yes, we did it" (B. Stanley) Pons told the Associated Press.DESERET NEWS, April 2, 1989: New scientific ideas are always met with skepticism, but the University of Utah's claims of cold nuclear fusion is doubly doubted . . .
There is a growing number of physicists who say even if the experiment does work and the great amounts of heat Pons and Fleischmann have seen are repeated, they believe it isn't nuclear fusion taking place, but some strange form of chemistry.
DESERET NEWS, June 24, 1991: The National Cold Fusion Institute will close its doors at the University of Utah campus June 30 after nearly two years of tumultuous existence. The $5 million worth of support in state funds is gone and other sources of private or public financing have not been found. ENDITAL
The rise and fall of the University of Utah's cold fusion "breakthrough" left a plethora of questions that scientists continue to attempt to unravel as the century ends.