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UK / Roadmap Says Nuclear Could Produce One-Third Of Clean Hydrogen Needs By 2050

By David Dalton
18 February 2021

Reactors, including SMRs, could help meet ‘immense’ challenge of moving to net zero economy
Roadmap Says Nuclear Could Produce One-Third Of Clean Hydrogen Needs By 2050
Small modular reactors like those being proposed by Rolls-Royce could play a crucial role, the roadmap says. Courtesy Rolls-Royce.
Nuclear power could produce one-third of the UK’s clean hydrogen needs by 2050 with existing large-scale nuclear plants and a new generation of advanced reactors playing a role, according to a hydrogen roadmap published on Thursday by the Nuclear Industry Council (NIC).

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