Is the fusion tech in fallout cold or hot fusion?

Is the fusion tech in fallout cold or hot fusion?
i though all fusion tech in fallout is cold fusion because he G.E.C.K advertisement but the plasma grenade in game description says
"A magnetically sealed plasma delivery unit, with detonating explosives. Creates a blast of superheated plasma on contact."
which means they solved the heat problem by magnetic field, so it can be a hot fusion

Hot fusion is the fusion of light atomic nuclei due to their kinetic energy upon collision exceeding the Coulomb barrier. The positive electric charges of the nuclei will always repel each other, but with sufficient collision energy, this barrier is broken through, and nuclear forces kick in, fusing the two nuclei into one with a massive energy yield.
The temperature to which hydrogen must be heated for hot fusion can only be achieved inside the sun or in a thermonuclear bomb. Magnetic confinement of hot plasma, even in very small quantities, requires the construction of enormous structures with gigantic chambers and solenoid coils. For example, ITER.
Magnetic confinement in a hand grenade is just sci-fi, nothing more.
Cold fusion is an entirely different mechanism.
The most promising (but no longer applicable) scheme was one involving muonic atoms. The point is that if you remove an electron from a hydrogen atom and replace it with a muon, the atom's radius decreases by orders of magnitude, which, in theory, would allow the two atoms to fuse their nuclei during a collision through the tunneling effect.
In practice, nothing good came of this. The number of atoms that reacted turned out to be negligible.
As a result, all technologies in the Fallout universe should be treated as magic, not as technology.

Another question that worries me is why ask this on the forum if it’s enough to ask Deepseek

broneslav said:

Another question that worries me is why ask this on the forum if it’s enough to ask Deepseek

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i don't talk in echo chambers, i am no schizo

broneslav said:

As a result, all technologies in the Fallout universe should be treated as magic, not as technology.

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i know it is magic but it is an interesting lore and world building

Does plasma weaponry require nuclear fusion? Isn’t it just a matter of heating gas until it changes its state of matter to plasma?

Iprovidelittlepianos said:

Does plasma weaponry require nuclear fusion? Isn’t it just a matter of heating gas until it changes its state of matter to plasma?

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no, you just need a lot of energy to heat up the gas, you can use energy cells in fallout for plasma pistol

Unfortunately, this is all just sci-fi.
The temperature required to ionize hydrogen is in the range of tens to hundreds of thousands of degrees Kelvin. Your plasma gun will melt slightly during plasma generation at the moment of firing. The best option would be to generate cold plasma through an electrical discharge in a small, special gas chamber. You can learn more about this by googling "plasmatron."

did the chit chat about "science" and "this is fiction" end now? because i am waiting an argument about the lore here, if microfusion cells are cold fusion or not

Based on the wiki it seems that they are not cold fusion. Another wiki also stated that cold fusion was elusive before the war and the institute also didn't think it was possible. I can't remember if Fallout 1 or 2 had cold fusion anything. The G.E.C.K. is stated as being cold fusion though. Seems cold fusion is a Bethesda/TV show addition, but doesn't apply to microfusion or fusion cores.