Future Trends and Emerging Opportunities with Nuclear Hydrogen Production
Nuclear hydrogen production includes technologies with both old roots and new emerging directions: nuclear power plants and hydrogen production processes. Hydrogen production from water or hydrocarbons has been established since the early twentieth centur
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Hydrogen Production from Nuclear Energy
Hydrogen Production from Nuclear Energy
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Greg F. Naterer • Ibrahim Dincer • Calin Zamfirescu
Hydrogen Production from Nuclear Energy
Greg F. Naterer Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John’s, Newfoundland Canada
Ibrahim Dincer Calin Zamfirescu Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science University of Ontario Institute of Technology Oshawa, Ontario Canada
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To Veronica, Julia, Jordan and Josie Naterer To Ibrahim Emir, Zeynep, Ibrahim Eren, Miray, Meliha and Gulsen Dincer To Ioana and Iuliana-Maria Zamfirescu
Preface
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. It was first identified in the 1850s, during the industrial revolution, when a new type of society had emerged with the invention of the steam engine and its rapid transformation of the world’s standard of living. In this mechanization era, the energy from coal was converted to mechanical power by steam engines, while the world shifted from a feudal s
