WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University panel that reviewed misconduct allegations against a scientist who claims he produced “tabletop fusion” has concluded that “several matters merit further investigation.”

The finding was announced without elaboration in the case of Purdue nuclear engineering professor Rusi Taleyarkhan.


He published research in 2002 saying he had used a simple tabletop experiment to unleash fusion, the force that powers stars. He has come under fire since then because other scientists have tried without success to reproduce his fusion work.

“The review has been diligent and wide-ranging,” Purdue spokesman Joseph L. Bennett said in a statement, declining to elaborate on the committee’s findings.

AP