{"id":25,"date":"2021-10-06T07:03:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T14:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/?p=25"},"modified":"2021-10-06T07:09:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T14:09:11","slug":"how-hydrogen-and-nuclear-can-work-together-to-support-rapid-decarbonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/25\/how-hydrogen-and-nuclear-can-work-together-to-support-rapid-decarbonization\/","title":{"rendered":"How Hydrogen and Nuclear Can Work Together to Support Rapid Decarbonization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlnewnuclear.com\/2021\/10\/how-hydrogen-and-nuclear-can-work-together-to-support-rapid-decarbonization\/\">Amy Roma and Stephanie Fishman wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One very promising tool that has received a lot of attention lately, and which can be teamed with nuclear, is hydrogen production. &nbsp;Nuclear power plants can supply the required heat and electricity to produce hydrogen without generating any carbon emissions.&nbsp; Using nuclear in place of current energy alternatives in process heat applications, such as those required in hydrogen production, can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.world-nuclear.org\/information-library\/non-power-nuclear-applications\/industry\/nuclear-process-heat-for-industry.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">result<\/a> in price stability and increased energy security.&nbsp; Nuclear produced hydrogen can either be used as fuel for generators based on combustion or sold for industrial purposes.&nbsp; As markets incorporate renewable sources of energy and the demand continues to vary &ndash; falling during the day and peaking in the early evening as people return home from work &ndash; it is becoming more difficult to sustain the supply-demand balance. &nbsp;The operational flexibility and reliability enable nuclear plants to respond to seasonal demand shifts, hourly market pricing changes, and make a nuclear hydrogen combination appealing.<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Catch? &nbsp;Hydrogen has a dirty secret.<\/strong> Despite its immense promise, hydrogen&rsquo;s dirty secret is that hydrogen&rsquo;s carbon footprint really depends on how the hydrogen is produced.&nbsp; In fact, there is an entire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.world-nuclear.org\/information-library\/energy-and-the-environment\/hydrogen-production-and-uses.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">color spectrum<\/a>&nbsp;of types of hydrogen classified by the way it is produced.&nbsp; Since hydrogen is not found in free form (H2), it must be separated from other molecules like water or methane, using energy sources.&nbsp; Nearly all hydrogen currently comes from energy produced with fossil fuels or natural gas, where it is bonded with carbon, separated by a process called &ldquo;steam reforming&rdquo; and the excess carbon generates carbon dioxide.&nbsp; This type of hydrogen is referred to as &ldquo;grey&rdquo; hydrogen to indicate it was created from fossil fuels without capturing the greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>Finally, pink hydrogen is used to describe hydrogen obtained through nuclear energy which emits virtually no pollutants.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Roma and Stephanie Fishman wrote: One very promising tool that has received a lot of attention lately, and which can be teamed with nuclear, is hydrogen production. &nbsp;Nuclear power plants can supply the required heat and electricity to produce hydrogen without generating any carbon emissions.&nbsp; Using nuclear in place of current energy alternatives in...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/25\/how-hydrogen-and-nuclear-can-work-together-to-support-rapid-decarbonization\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-are-people-saying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}