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'Missing link': Could nuclear power up the clean hydrogen industry?

Business Green

A new report argues that with demand for clean hydrogen set to boom, the nascent mocular reactor industry could have a key role to play in meeting surging demand. The world can meet the Paris climate goals and save "trillions" of dollars by building a new generation of modular nuclear reactors to create clean hydrogen, a new report suggests.

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Hitachi ditches UK nuclear power projects

Business Green

Hitachi has officially scrapped plans to build new nuclear power plants at Wylfa on Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire amid ongoing struggles to drum-up additional financing for the high profile projects, it confirmed today, dealing another major blow to the nuclear industry's ambitions in the UK.

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Nuclear enabled hydrogen – how it helps to reach net zero

Smart Energy International

Nuclear enabled hydrogen is zero carbon, has low cost energy input, is large scale and offers co-location synergy and energy system connectivity. That is according to a new position paper from the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (UKHFCA) on the role of nuclear enabled hydrogen in delivering net zero.

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Major hydrogen initiatives underway at US Department of Energy

Renewable Energy World

DOE announces 52M for 31 hydrogen projects; issues RFI for projects to which Avangrid responds. million to fund 31 projects to advance next-generation clean hydrogen technologies and support DOE’s recently announced Hydrogen Energy Earthshot initiative. Connecticut — Electrolyzer and Hydrogen Storage .

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UK Boosts Hydrogen, EVs and Carbon Capture With New Net-Zero Plan

GreenTechMedia

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed a ten-point plan to set the country on its way toward its 2050 net-zero plan, with an accelerated EV rollout and a new hydrogen target the standout pledges. Parkin is the project director of the HyNet cluster in Merseyside, which proposes an integrated network of CCS and hydrogen infrastructure.

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Crumbs of consolation? What the budget offered

Envirotec Magazine

This was welcomed by Oliver Dudok of consultancy firm Kearney, “however,” he added, “neither zero-emission vehicles nor clean aviation is driving the necessary shift towards lower-carbon transportation options.” Wylfa is one of the very best sites for new nuclear anywhere in Europe and there is great promise for a series of SMRs at Oldbury.

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UK’s Power Sector in Negative Emissions by 2033, Grid Operator Says

GreenTechMedia

CCUS paired with bioenergy power generation, as is planned at the Net Zero Humberside cluster, could lead to negative emissions of 62 metric megatons of CO2 (equivalent) by 2050, the report says. ’s aviation sector puffs out in an average year. That’s more CO2 than the U.K.’s is beginning to take steps in both areas.