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by sergiosgc 2773 days ago
At those temperatures, it will disintegrate whatever it touches. It's just that, unlike fission, fusion is unstable[1] so it quickly fizzles out, and damage will be local.

[1] Unstable in the sense that it is hard to maintain fusion conditions, not in the Hollywood sense that it blows up if you look at it sideways.

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It’s not particularly hard to maintain fusion conditions, you just need a stellar mass levels.