Physics Today appears to have come down heavy, and somewhat inaccurately, on the DOE report.
"Claims of cold fusion are no more convincing today than they were 15 years ago.
That's the conclusion of the Department of Energy's fresh look at advances in
extracting energy from low-energy nuclear reactions.
A report released on 1 December 2004 echoes DOE's 1989 study that
followed the headline-making claims of cold fusion by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann."
Those who have followed this are aware that this is not accurate.
First, eighteen anonymous DOE reviewers "split approximately evenly"
on whether or not there is excess power observed in the cold fusion phenomena.
That is a great change since the 1989 ERAB report.]
Second, not all 2004 cold fusion data was reported to the DOE.
Third, FWIW, these are not "low-energy" nuclear reactions, but involve many MeV per nucleon.
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