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Given that they can reach terrifying energies and temperatures, why isn’t fusion of protons a concern? After all, they start with a plasma and ram protons into each other. At some point the strong force will over comeovercome the proton-proton electric repulsion  , no?

And as a corollary, can they repurposere-purpose CERN to become a fusion reactor  ?

Given that they can reach terrifying energies and temperatures, why isn’t fusion of protons a concern? After all they start with a plasma and ram protons into each other. At some point the strong force will over come the proton-proton electric repulsion  , no?

And as a corollary, can they repurpose CERN to become a fusion reactor  ?

Given that they can reach terrifying energies and temperatures, why isn’t fusion of protons a concern? After all, they start with a plasma and ram protons into each other. At some point the strong force will overcome the proton-proton electric repulsion, no?

And as a corollary, can they re-purpose CERN to become a fusion reactor?

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Why isn’t CERN afraid of a fusion reaction in the LHC?

Given that they can reach terrifying energies and temperatures, why isn’t fusion of protons a concern? After all they start with a plasma and ram protons into each other. At some point the strong force will over come the proton-proton electric repulsion , no?

And as a corollary, can they repurpose CERN to become a fusion reactor ?