Furthermore, The density of white dwarves is some 10^6g/cm^3 compared to water at 1g/cm^3. This would mean that the inter-nuclei spacing was 1/100 of water.
Now Muon catalyzed fusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion which we know works brings the nuclei 1/207 of the distance with electrons. It happens at an appreciable rate. since white dwarves are not more luminous than a black body radiating away with the Stefan Boltzmann law, we can conclude that there are no nuclear reactions AND that is the limit of what can be done with ordinary matter. In short, if you can't even get in the ball park of white dwarf matter in the lab, what chance in hell have you of even approaching muon catalysed reaction rates?
