Spontaneity of nuclear fusion
"Furthermore, it should be evaluated whether these conclusions
about the thermodynamics and kinetics of fusion reactions
could allow the controversial “cold fusion” experiments to be
revisited14. At low temperature (≈ 102 K) the kinetic energy of
nucleons could be different from that of atoms and molecules
and, therefore, a classical thermodynamic analysis may be
applied when the initial and final states of the reactions considered
are fixed without the presence of subnuclear particles. In
such a case, this analysis shows that thermodynamics should
positively affect fusion carried out at low temperatures. On
the other hand, the low temperature would involve very slow
kinetics that could be responsible for the poor reproducibility
of these experiments and make any application unfeasible."