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Nuclear Production of Hydrogen

Third Information Exchange Meeting, Oarai, Japan, 5-7 October 2005

Hydrogen has the potential to play an important role as a sustainable and environmentally acceptable energy carrier in the 21st century. Since natural sources of pure hydrogen are extremely limited, it is necessary to develop technologies to produce large quantities of hydrogen economically. The currently dominant technology for producing hydrogen is based on reforming fossil fuels, a process which releases greenhouse gases. Hydrogen produced by water cracking, using heat and surplus electricity from nuclear power plants, requires no fossil fuels and results in lower greenhouse gas emissions. This conference proceedings presents the state of the art in the nuclear production of hydrogen and describes its associated scientific and technical challenges.

Publication Date :: 29 June 2006
DOI :: 10.1787/9789264026308-en

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Separation and Utlisation of Rare Metal Fission Products in Nuclear Fuel Cycle as for Hydrogen Production Catalysts?

Authors:: Masaki Ozawa, Reiko Fujita, Tatsuya Suzuki, Yasuhiko Fujii


Pages :: 355–364
DOI :: 10.1787/9789264026308-36-en

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A novel reprocessing system with recovery of actinides, long-lived fission products (LLFP) and valuable rare metal fission products (RMFP) has been proposed. This process is based on ion exchange (IX) and catalytic electrolytic extraction (CEE). The pre-filtration step using tertiary pyridine-type anion-exchange resin is set prior to the main actinide recovery steps in this system.