DOE Awards $1.4M to Study Nuclear Energy for Clean Hydrogen
September 19, 2006 // Published as a news service by IHS
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) intends to fund approximately $1.4M (subject to negotiation) for two projects to study the economic feasibility of producing hydrogen at existing commercial nuclear power plants.
Teams selected by DOE for funding will be headed by Electric Transportation Applications (ETA) and GE Global Research.
Both teams include DOE national laboratories and nuclear utility companies as partners.
ETA plans to study the economics of producing hydrogen at existing nuclear power plants using commercially available production technology.
ETA will partner with the DOE Idaho National Laboratory and Arizona Public Service.
GE Global Research proposes a feasibility study of hydrogen production using alkaline electrolysis powered by existing nuclear power plants. Partners for this project include the DOE National Renewable Energy Lab and the Entergy Corporation.
"Both of these proposals involve very strong project teams, with a lot of experience in both the nuclear energy and hydrogen production areas," DOE Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Dennis Spurgeon said.
"I believe the results of their studies will bring a good deal of new information to the question of how to use nuclear energy to efficiently produce hydrogen in this country."
Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).