이 용어는 유석재 국가핵융합연구소 소장이 2014년께 학회에서 처음 선보이고, 지난해 한국과학기술원(카이스트) 최원호 물리학과 교수가 리뷰논문에서 사용해 국제적으로 공식화했다.
This term was first introduced by Yoo Seok-jae, director of the National Institute of Nuclear Convergence, at an academic conference around 2014, and was formalized internationally when Choi Won-ho, a physics professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), used it in a review paper last year.