Report of Groundbreaking 2012 LENR Colloquium at CERN
 CERN Invites 2012 LENR Colloquium
June 2, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –
Last year, a profound event took place at one of the most prestigious nuclear physics institutions in the world, CERN, the European Centre for Nuclear Research.
On Feb. 8, 2012, New Energy Times reported that CERN had scheduled an invited colloquium, “Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR);” it took place on March 22 in CERN’s council chamber.
Ignatios Antoniadis, a member of the theoretical physics division of CERN, invited two speakers; Francesco Celani, a physicist with the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Frascati, Italy, to talk about experiments, and Yogendra Srivastava, a physicist with the University of Perugia, Italy, to talk about theory. Srivastava is a co-author of theoretical work, along with Alan Widom and Lewis Larsen, developers of the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs.
New Energy Times did not write a follow-up news report after the colloquium, however there has been recent interest in LENR in Europe, and this is a good time to take a quick look back.
CERN holds a distinct place in cold fusion history, as it was the home of physicist Douglas R.O. Morrison, who published weekly newsletters, distributed worldwide, that depicted the entire field as pathological science.
On March 31, eight days after the fateful March 23, 1989, University of Utah fusion press conference where Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced their discovery of “sustained nuclear fusion” in a test tube, Fleischmann spoke in the main auditorium at CERN. The Srivastava and Celani talks may have been the only ones on the topic at CERN since 1989.
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Perhaps the most significant response to the colloquium at CERN is that there was no response; No protests against pathological science, no ridicule, no mockery. Of course, neither of the speakers attempted to sell the CERN audience on “cold fusion” or to glorify Fleischmann or Pons.
Antoniadis invited the speakers on Jan. 13, 2012. An event, coincidental or related, took place on Dec. 7, 2011. Larsen published a paper on Slideshare discussing a possible relationship between low-energy nuclear reactions and unexplained observations with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
The other group that was silent about the 2012 CERN colloquium was the broader group of LENR researchers, particularly those who still believe in cold fusion. The CERN colloquium was an historic accomplishment for the field.
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