Cop27 / US And Ukraine Announce Plans To Use SMRs for Clean Hydrogen And Ammonia

Aim is to decarbonise ‘hard-to-abate’ sectors such as heavy industry and transport
US And Ukraine Announce Plans To Use SMRs for Clean Hydrogen And Ammonia
John Kerry announced the project at Cop27 in Egypt. Courtesy John Kerry/Twitter.
The US and Ukraine have announced plans to cooperate on a project that will demonstrate production of clean hydrogen and ammonia using small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) and cutting-edge electrolysis technologies in Ukraine.

US special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry and Ukraine minister of energy German Galushchenko announced the Ukraine ‘Clean Fuels from SMRs Pilot’ project at the United Nations Cop27 climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

The US state department said in a statement that the project aims to carry out a first-of-a-kind pilot of commercial-scale production of clean fuels from SMRs using solid oxide electrolysis.

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