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Nuclear production of hydrogen: When worlds collide
Author(s) -
Duffey R. B.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.1428
Subject(s) - renewable energy , nuclear power , greenhouse gas , hydrogen production , hydrogen , environmental science , production (economics) , hydrogen technologies , greenhouse effect , climate change , hydrogen economy , natural resource economics , global warming , waste management , engineering , chemistry , economics , physics , ecology , nuclear physics , macroeconomics , organic chemistry , electrical engineering , biology
A particularly important role for nuclear power in the future will be in alleviating the potential for climate change by avoiding greenhouse and particulate emissions. The corollary is the key link to the hydrogen economy, where the introduction of hydrogen into the transportation sector will benefit the environment only when low carbon sources, such as nuclear reactors, are the primary energy source for hydrogen production. The future could well be the Hydrogen Age. We show that a major reduction in greenhouse emissions worldwide can be obtained by synergistic nuclear‐electric‐renewable production of hydrogen, thus alleviating potential effects on future generations. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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