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Energy infrastructure of the future could look very different to the infrastructure we rely on today. Research by a team of experts from the National Nuclear Laboratory shows that powering hydrogen production using nuclear energy could be economically viable.

This research was published in the journal New Energy Exploitation and Application.

Mark Bankhead, Chemical Modeling Team Manager, explains the background to the research, "Hydrogen and hydrogen-derived alternative liquid fuels are a key enabler for the UK to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Nuclear power can be coupled to different hydrogen-producing technologies. To inform our strategy for demonstrating the value of these technologies by the 2030s, we developed a model that provides insight into their techno-economic performance.

"There are competitive advantages of thermochemical hydrogen production coupled with a High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR), and we know there is more work to do to optimize these technologies and realize the potential of this technology."

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