Experts say the experiment, described here this week at the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, is also one of
the first laboratory demonstrations that newly evolved life quickly invades distinct habitats.
A version of the high temperature, fast neutron technology was
first built in Germany in the early 1960's, a prototype was run at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory in the late 1960's, a
demonstration plant is being constructed in China after a decade of running a prototype there.