Raytrax is an open source Python library for simulating electron cyclotron heating of fusion plamas. I started working on the code at Proxima Fusion and we jointly open sourced it this week. This blog post explains what the code is about.

Fusion energy#

Fusion energy recreates the sun’s power source on earth: by heating a plasma (ionized gas) to around 100 million degrees, pairs of nuclei are made to fuse into a heavier nucleus, releasing energy in the process. Building power plants based on this principle would unlock an enormous amount of energy without carbon emissions and without dependence on scarce fuels distributed unequally across the globe.