India launches world’s first nuclear process heat-based hydrogen production facility
In India, the Indian Government reported that India’s Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, Ajit Kumar Mohanty has inaugurated what it claims to be the world’s first hydrogen production facility based on the Copper-Chlorine (Cu-Cl) Thermochemical Cycle utilizing nuclear process heat generated from the Fast Breeder Test Reactor at the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR), in Kalpakkam.
Mohanty said that the integration of nuclear energy with emerging clean energy technologies, such as hydrogen production represents a strategic pathway towards a sustainable energy future. He said that nuclear power with its unique ability to provide reliable carbon-free electricity is ideally suited to support large-scale hydrogen production while contributing to India’s energy security, decarbonization goals and long-term sustainable development objectives.
The facility has been established as a technology demonstrator to validate the production of hydrogen using nuclear energy through the Cu-Cl thermochemical process developed indigenously by Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), in Mumbai.
Category: Hydrogen
