The Rasiowa–Sikorski lemma constructs a generic filter over each . Every resulting generic extension remains a countable transitive model of ZFC: there are only countably many ground-model names externally. The order has the same elements and ordering at every stage, and atomless forcing order structure is absolute because all its quantifiers are bounded to . Hence the generic filter for an atomless order is new result gives for every .
The increasing union is transitive and contains . If it satisfied Axiom of power set for , there would be a set with
Choose with . The next-stage generic filter belongs to and is an actual subset of . This subset assertion is absolute for the transitive set , so . Transitivity of and then give , a contradiction. Thus the power-set failure in an increasing union of generic extensions occurs already at the fixed ground-model order:
The stages form an increasing chain, not an elementary chain, so the elementary chain theorem does not assert ZFC for their union.