Nuclear hydrogen production

The JAEA selects the IS-process to be the basis for commercial development mainly because it is seen more suited to large-scale nuclear hydrogen production than HTE [9] and other alternatives. However, an available HTE-based plant can be connected to the reactor in the same manner as the IS process plant is connected. The HTE similarly requires a high-temperature process heat, and about 25% of its total energy input is heat and the balance electricity, which are fully and efficiently met in-house by the reactor heat and gas turbine power plant. 

JAEA s plan for nuclear hydrogen production with the VHTR. 

Yalcin S (1989) A review of nuclear hydrogen production. IntJ Hydrogen Energy 14 551-561... 

Onuki K, Inagaki Y, Hino R, Tachibana Y (2005) Research and development on nuclear hydrogen production using HTGR at JAERI. Prog Nucl Energy 47 496-503... 

Economic and market analyses presented in this session appropriately complement previous technical sessions and address cmcial aspects that will determine which processes of nuclear hydrogen production will be developed beyond lab-scale experiments and may be ultimately commercialised. They contribute in particular to orient decisions to be taken in 2009 about the selection of hydrogen production process to be tested with the NGNP and about the creation of a consortium to support the next phases of the project. 

Entergy and AREVA express encouraging positions about the commercial viability of nuclear hydrogen production. 

Session 6 Safety aspects of nuclear hydrogen production Co-chairs Jozef Misak (UJV), Theodore Krause (ANL)... 

A panel of experts representing nuclear regulatory agencies (US NRC), government national laboratories and agencies (DOE/ANL and JAEA) and universities [Purdue University (USA), National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Kyushu University (Japan)] was convened to present advances in understanding the safety aspects of nuclear hydrogen production. 

The Energy Policy Act of 8 August 2005 in the United States sets plans for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant with the mission of proceeding to pre-industrial demonstrations of nuclear hydrogen production in the 2020s. 

NUCLEAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION PROGRAMME IN THE UNITED STATES... 

Nuclear hydrogen production programme in the United States... 

Shiozawa, S., et al. (2007), Status of the Japanese Nuclear Hydrogen Program , ANS 2007 Annual Meeting, Embedded Topical on Safety and Technology of Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control and Management (ST-NH2), 24-28 June, Boston, MA, USA. 

STATUS OF THE KOREAN NUCLEAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION PROJECT... 

Status of the Korean nuclear hydrogen production project... 

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