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Dear friends of the Society, We are delighted to announce that the 40th volume of the Journal for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science has now been published. An advance copy is available at the below link, and individual papers from the issue will be available at jcmns.org as soon as is practicable. Download the Issue With thanks,The ISCMNS

The French Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science is pleased to announce the 17th International Workshop on Anomalies in Hydrogen Loaded Metals. From the SFSNMC: We are pleased to announce that the next International Workshop of Anomalies in Hydrogen Loaded Metals, IWAHLM-17 will be held in Bergamo, Italy, March Tuesday 24, 2026 through Thursday March 26. The conference will be hosted in the premises of the Innovation District named Kilometro Rosso close to the city of Bergamo, 40 kms North-East of Milan. This is the first announcement of the conferences. The conference website is not yet active, but will be…

The below message comes from Dr. Raj Pala of IIT Kanpur. Dear Friends, The abstract submission portal for the session “F03 – Electrochemically & Electrically Activated Condensed Matter Nuclear Reactions” at the 249th ECS Meeting, May 24-28, 2026, Seattle Convention Center – Arch and Sheraton Grand Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA, is now open. The deadline for Abstract submission is December 5, 2025. Details of the meeting can be found at: https://ecs.confex.com/ecs/249/cfp.cgi This symposium aims to bring together the various research groups working within the framework funded by the US-DOE/Arpa-E, Anthropocene Institute, EU-CleanHME, Japanese industry-government consortium, and Condensed Matter Nuclear Community,…

November 3, 2025 Dear Members and Friends of the Society, As you may know, in mid-September, our CEO Alan Smith tendered his resignation as CEO of the Society effective at the end of October. It is with both gratitude and sadness that we wish him all the best with his future work and his new venture, Paragon Resources. On the 29th of October, the Executive Committee met and was presented with a strategic plan written by Dr. Thomas Grimshaw and Seamus Lonergan. Following discussion, the strategic plan was accepted, and a new slate of officers was appointed on an interim basis.…

The society is saddened to share that Dr. Gustave Fralick passed away in February of this year. We offer our sincerest condolences to Dr. Fralick’s family, friends and colleagues. For 58 years, Dr. Fralick worked as a physicist at NASA and, with his colleagues, conducted one of the earliest replications of the anomalous excess heat effect by gas loading deuterium into a palladium-silver alloy. Subsequent experimental campaigns at NASA by Dr. Fralick and his colleagues have replicated this early experimental work and expanded on his pioneering achievements. Most recently, Dr. Fralick participated in NASA’s Advanced Energy Conversion and Lattice Confinement…

The society extends our sincerest condolences to the family, friends and former colleagues of Dennis Bushnell, former Chief Scientist of NASA. Bushnell worked for 60 years at NASA, researching areas as diverse as viscous flow modeling and control, turbulent drag reduction, hypersonic flight, and advanced materials. He also championed LENR research within NASA Langley during his tenure as Chief Scientist. Bushnell was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, was named a fellow of the ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and the Royal Aeronautical Society, and an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Rest…

The society extends our sincerest condolences to Dr. Melvin Miles’ family, friends and colleagues. Dr. Miles was one of the first to report observations of a correlation between excess heat and helium-4 measurements in his group’s electrochemical experiments at the Naval Air Warfare Centre Weapons Division, China Lake. A dedicated and long time member of the field, Dr. Miles published over 100 papers on condensed matter nuclear science, and collaborated with Prof. Martin Fleischmann on the analysis and reanalysis of experimental data. Dr. Miles recieved the society’s Truffle Prize in 1999, courtesy of Fiat. He was, in the words of…

The society extends our sincerest condolences to Dr. Michael McKubre’s family, friends and colleagues. From its earliest days, Dr. McKubre was a thoughtful and indefatigable contributor to our field. With his colleagues at SRI International, he oversaw one of the longest running research programs into low energy nuclear reactions, and made path breaking contributions to our understanding of condensed matter nuclear science. Dr. McKubre became an Honorary Fellow of the society in August 2023, and received the society’s Preparata Medal in November 2005. These being two of the highest honours conferred by the society. His wisdom and good nature will…

Clean Planet and Tohoku University have announced a seminar to coincide with ICCF-26. We are pleased to announce the 1st Clean Energy Seminar, to be held on June 2 at the Aobayama Campus of Tohoku University. In this special event, we will welcome three international researchers visiting Japan for the conference “ICCF26”, who will share the latest developments in “Cold Fusion” research. Details can be found in our events section. With best wishes, The ISCMNS team.

A message from the ICCF-26 Organising Committee: Dear ICCF26 presenters, We have posted the program on our website.Please check: https://iccf26.org/program.htmlThe presentation guidelines will be announced shortly. Please wait a moment.We have extended the registration deadline to May 14, but if you have not registered yet, please do so as soon as possible. Shinya Narita ICCF26 LOC

The ISCMNS is delighted to announce that the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science have been published in the 39th volume of the Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. Vol. 39 is now available at: https://jcmns.org/issue/11967 Those desiring a single PDF copy of the entire issue may download one here. With best wishes, The ISCMNS team.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $10 million in funding for eight projects working to determine whether low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) could be the basis for a potentially transformative carbon-free energy source. The teams selected today—from universities, a national laboratory, and small business—aim to break the stalemate of research in this space. “ARPA-E is all about funding high-risk, high-reward energy technologies,” said ARPA-E Director Evelyn N. Wang. “The teams announced today are set out to answer the question ‘does this area show promise, and if so, how? Or can we conclusively show that it does not?’ While others have shied away…

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