Exploration and Returning to Saturn

The principles behind the controllable nuclear fusion humanity sought to master were not fundamentally different from the nuclear fusion inside a Hydrogen Bomb.

Specifically, the scale of Nuclear Fusion was controlled by restricting the materials involved, allowing the fusion process to continue.

Take gunpowder, for example. If a pile of gunpowder was ignited all at once, it would burn out in an instant, scattering sparks everywhere.

But if it were fed in slowly through some sort of pipe and kept burning continuously at a designated location, the same gunpowder could burn for a much longer time.

The principle of controllable nuclear fusion was the same: continuously feed in small amounts of hydrogen and keep the Nuclear Fusion Reaction going.

The only limitation was that humanity currently could not create a suitable container.

Using the earlier gunpowder pipe as an example, such a pipe could be manufactured with humanity's technological level, but humanity could not manufacture a pipe capable of containing nuclear fusion fuel.

Because it was not strong enough.

The terrifying temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees produced by Nuclear Fusion could destroy any container or device, triggering a chain reaction and forming a massive Hydrogen Bomb explosion.

The controllable nuclear fusion humanity currently envisioned relied on methods similar to electromagnetic confinement.

However, due to material limitations, this method of confinement could not yet be achieved. This was also why research into superconducting materials had remained so popular. Only when superconducting materials emerged could such confinement truly be put into practice.

That said—

In the world before Mark's transmigration, controllable nuclear fusion technology had indeed been difficult to implement. But in the world of Pokémon, controllable nuclear fusion was not actually difficult to achieve.

At least, Mark now had the ability to construct a controllable nuclear fusion reactor, and