What would happen if we collided uranium 238 with super fast protons at the LHC?

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Would we force start a fission reaction, even if it’s not self sustaining?

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We would either split the uranium (a single fission event – not super interesting) or produce an atom of Neptunium-239 which decays on the order of days.

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