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We evaluate speculation about the possibility of a dangerous release ofenergy within the liquid Helium of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) cryogenicsystem due to the occurrence of a "Bose-Nova". Bose-Novae are radial bursts ofrapidly moving atoms which can occur when a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC)undergoes a collapse due the interatomic potential being deliberately madeattractive using a magnetic field close to the Feshbach resonance. Liquid 4Hehas a monatomic structure with s-wave electrons, zero nuclear spin, nohyperfine splitting, and as a consequence no Feshbach resonance which wouldallow one to change its normally repulsive interactions to be attractive.Because of this, a Bose-Nova style collapse of 4He is impossible. Additionalspeculations concerning cold fusion during these events are easily dismissedusing the usual arguments about the Coulomb barrier at low temperatures, andare not needed to explain the Bose-Einstein condensate Bose-Nova phenomenon. Weconclude that that there is no physics whatsoever which suggests that Heliumcould undergo any kind of unforeseen catastrophic explosion.

There is no explosion risk associated with superfluid Helium in the LHC cooling system