Nine Mile Point Begins Clean Hydrogen Production

[Caribbeans]

Source: Energy.Gov

Clean hydrogen production is underway at the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station in Oswego, New York. The facility is the first-of-its-kind in the United States to generate clean hydrogen using nuclear power.

This nuclear milestone is part of a $14.5 million cost shared project between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Constellation to demonstrate how nuclear power plants can help lower the cost and scale-up the production of clean hydrogen.

Constellation will use the hydrogen generated on-site to help cool the power plant.

Demonstrating Clean Hydrogen Production

DOE supported the construction and installation of a low-temperature electrolysis system at the Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant that leverages the facility’s existing hydrogen storage system.

Constellation’s new Hydrogen Generation System produces hydrogen without emissions by using electricity generated at the plant to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

Read more: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nine-mile-point-begins-clean-hydrogen-production

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Nuclear H2 = Pink H2

[oasis]

1. Getting it done. Thanx for posting

[LudwigPastorius]

2. I guess "clean" in respect to atmospheric emissions, but...

not so clean if you're talking about the uranium oxide in the plant's fuel rods.

[NNadir]

5. Bullshit.

[Oneironaut]

6. They're self-contained.

Modern nuclear power is actually extremely safe and environmentally friendly. Unless we can harness energy like fusion or something like that, nuclear is the best alternative imo. Accidents are incredibly rare to the point of being near-impossible.

[Farmer-Rick]

7. The problem is they are using an existing plant.

This is no modern nuclear plant. Construction began in Unit 1: April 12, 1965, in Unit 2: August 1, 1975
Commission dates:
Unit 1: December 1, 1969
Unit 2: March 11, 1988

According to the article: "This accomplishment tangibly demonstrates that our nation’s existing reactor fleet can produce clean hydrogen today."

Some corporation owned by a filthy rich tax scammer is going to make money off this. It will be a big profit center for them because they don't have to build a new modern plant that doesn't have all the failure points of Fukushima.

We may need nuclear to prevent the earth from becoming uninhabitablly hot for humans but at least use new equipment and machinery.

[republianmushroom]

8. agree

[masmdu]

3. As Red Hydrogen in Japan

[hunter]

4. Here's what this hydrogen is used for:

A hydrogen-cooled turbo generator is a turbo generator with gaseous hydrogen as a coolant. Hydrogen-cooled turbo generators are designed to provide a low-drag atmosphere and cooling for single-shaft and combined-cycle applications in combination with steam turbines.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-cooled_turbo_generator