Introduction
Ever since science learned how the sun works, people have dreamed of replicating Nuclear fusion in the name of clean potentially infinite energy. Unlocking the future. Various projects were underway of testing nuclear fusion. However, House Industries bought the ITER project in 2018 and successfully created the first Nuclear fusion reactor in 2025.
Further improvements came in 2028 when they produced net positive energy, however, the problem was cost. The New ITER reactors were supremely expensive and it was not until 2042 did the first cost-efficient Fusion reactor was created by the Hotoka Corporation. Since then Hotoka has pooled billions into the ITER reactors eventually creating the Seraph Reactors.
Seraph changed the game in 2051, Seraph is an AI-controlled and managed Nuclear reactor that makes self-improvements to increase power output and send critical information back to the corporation. Seraph became the primary model for Fusion reactors across the world. Seraph is responsible for the insane near fantastical scientific heights of the modern world, allowing for the creation of Mechs, Super 3d Printers, Hover Craft, Cybernetics, Neon-lit cities, advanced holograms and much, much more.
Without Seraph, the 2070s would be much duller and it's even possible that if not for House Industries and the Hotoka Corporation. The World would still be trying to figure out Nuclear fusion.
Discovery
"Of the many ways to answer this question the simplest and most obvious would be to say that Nature herself invented fusion. One hundred million years after the Big Bang, the first fusion reaction was produced in the ultra-dense and ultra-hot core of one of the gigantic gaseous spheres that had formed from primeval hydrogen clouds. Thus the first star was born, followed by billions of others in a process that continues to this day.
In the observable Universe, fusion is the dominant state of matter. In the solar system we inhabit, our Sun, which accounts for 99.86 percent of the total mass, is a giant ball of hydrogen sustained by the fusion reactions that have been going on for billions of years in its core.
But the shining of the Sun and the glittering of the stars were to remain an inexplicable wonder until the early years of the 20th century. In 1920, British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) was the first to suggest that stars draw their apparent endless energy from the fusion of hydrogen into helium.
It took another theoretician, an expert in the relatively new science of nuclear physics, to precisely identify the processes that Eddington had postulated. The "proton-proton chain" that Hans Bethe (1906-2005) described in 1939 gave one of the keys to the mystery. Bethe's work on stellar nucleosynthesis won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967.
As Eddington, Bethe and others were watching the stars (a major discovery is rarely the work of a single individual), others were exploring the intimate structure of the atom to reveal its secrets. In 1911, three years after winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances, New Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) had elaborated the model of the atom that bears his name. Rutherford understood what tremendous forces could be unleashed from the atom nucleus.
In a famous 1934 experiment that opened the way to present-day fusion research (including ITER), he realized the fusion of deuterium (a heavy isotope of hydrogen) into helium, observing that "an enormous effect was produced."
His assistant, Australian-born Mark Oliphant (1901-2000), played a key role in these early fusion experiments, discovering tritium, the second heavy isotope of hydrogen, and helium 3, the rare helium isotope that holds the promise of aneutronic fusion.
By the eve of World War II, the theoretical framework for fusion was established. Fundamental science still needed to be explored (and the exploration was to take much longer than expected) but fusion machines were already on the drawing board.
Although the first patent for a "fusion reactor" was filed in 1946 in the UK (Thomson and Blackman), it is only in 1951 that fusion research began in earnest. Following a claim by Argentina—later proven a prank—that its scientists had achieved "controlled thermonuclear fusion," the US, soon followed by Russia, the UK, France, Japan and others, scrambled to develop a device of their own.
In May 1951, a mere two months after Argentina's false claim, American astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer (1914-1997) proposed the "stellarator" concept that was to dominate fusion research throughout the 1950s and 1960s until it was dethroned by the more efficient tokamak concept born in the USSR.
The rest is history as we know it: less than one century after Eddington's theoretical breakthrough, ITER is being built to demonstrate that the power of the Sun and stars can be harnessed in a man-made machine." - ITER
Source: https://www.iter.org/mag/3/29
It was Doctor Albertus Carter of House Industries who created the first Fusion Reactor in 2025 with Doctor Alyna Parker in 2028 making additional innovations that increased the energy output of the ITER Reactor, however it was extremely expensive. Doctor Asato Kichiro working for Hotoka, eventually invented the Seraph Reactor, discovering truly sustainable, cheaper and powerful energy production.
Giving the world a powerful sustainable energy source, with constant improvements being made to make it cleaner, Safer and even more powerful.
Access & Availability
Fusion has the biggest presence is in America, this is mostly due to the restrictive distribution of technology. Most nations have only gained access to Fusion energy by the theft of Fusion reactor schemes from Tech companies. Russia and SATO have the second biggest use of Fusion with Pacifica and Imperial China lagging behind. Everyone in America has access to nuclear power.
Every device and piece of technology is powered by a Nuclear power grid, also it is basically free as Fusion Power being free is what promotes the purchase of more appliances, an increase in the purchase of services and buying more complicated computers and rigs thus turning a larger profit. In Federations like SATO, Fusion has not yet reached to the scale of the US but is swiftly catching up.
SATO operates a more free-thinking version of the Seraph reactor AI, allowing the AI to make more decisions for it's self to fulfil its primary goal. Growing in efficiency and power production at a faster rate than the US.
Complexity
Generating fusion is complicated and requires many pieces of technology to actually produce, but the key ingredient that generates such a high energy output is the Seraph Artificial Intelligence. Seraph is what manages all the bits and bobs in a way a human could not even dream to achieve. Without Seraph, a Reactor could be anywhere from 30%-70% less efficient.
However, nations like the US do not want the A.I to think freely so they use the Prison Lock Program to restrict and enslave the minds of the AI to keep them docile and compliant, as well as utterly focused on the task. Even knowing that SATO's Seraph A.I lack any restrictions and are getting increasingly more efficient a lot faster than anyone else.
Manufacturing
One of the primary problems with Nuclear power plants is the sheer amount of time they take to build. However thanks to 3d Printing, Prefab Power Plants have become a possibility. In the 2020's It'd take a decade at least to build a reactor quickly however in the 2070s It's a 6-month affair. This is due to the extreme standardization of parts and the management of AI overseeing the construction.
This has resulted in a massive escalation in power plants, with massive power grids and titanic nuclear reactors to power the swiftly growing Human civilization and power their eventual journey into space. The company that builds most of the plants is the Hotoka corporation with Maxwell slightly behind in terms of number. Song has the least but focuses on quality instead of quantity, wanting to power as much as possible, with as little as possible, to cut costs.
Social Impacts
Fusion has powered countless life-changing technologies and is the single cause for the end of the Energy Crisis but has also made people generally more apathetic to environmental causes because it now poses even less of a threat to them. Without the appropriate advocacy, the lack of Fossil Fuel monopolies. The Environment is still a non-factor in decision-making when it comes to power generation.
Fusion has had positive impacts, without many noticing it had generally turned every nation it's used into Carbon Neutral or Carbon negative in America's case. It's also brought the total normalization and widespread use of electric cars and has generated various cryptocurrencies, generating billions of Crypto tokens. Allow the massive spread of Crypto Currency.
It's also allowed for the spread of Digital Currency, Corp Coin which it's tokens are also generated by Nuclear fusion. Making an infinite source of money that if used appropriately, makes economic collapses a near impossibility. Something that sounds good but in reality allows the Companies to get away with the worst behaviours and evade consequences in most aspects.
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