[3] The First Annual Conference on Cold Fusion was held in March 1990 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
"[5] The conference was attended by more than 200 researchers from the United States, Italy, Japan, India and Taiwan[6] and dozens of reporters[7] from all over the U.S. and abroad.
He then inferred that "[the] younger ones had bailed years ago, fearing career damage from the cold fusion stigma."
He reported seeing "highly technical presentations" and "was amazed by the quantity of the work, its quality, and the credentials of the people pursuing it", whereas "[a] few obvious pseudoscientists, promoting their ideas in an adjoining room used for poster sessions, were politely ignored.
"[3] ICCF24 - July 2022, Mountain View, California ICCF25 - August 2023, Szczecin, Poland ICCF26 - 26-30 May 2025, Morioka, Japan The Japanese version of this page has a fairly comprehensive list of past conferences.