(AP) -- COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A University of Missouri professor is resurrecting his nuclear fusion work from two decades ago.
Mark Prelas was part of a research team in 1991 that conducted a fusion experiment that emitted a burst of millions of neutrons. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that work stopped when funding was cut off.
At the time, cold fusion claims had been dismissed as junk science.
But Prelas' neutron-producing experiment resumed this year, and he presented his findings in August at a conference in South Korea.
He received funding from the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance at MU. It was created with a $5.5 million gift from the institute's namesake, an apparel tycoon who founded The Jones Group.
Five other research teams are working on energy-related studies through the institute.
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