Global nuclear body launches commercial hydrogen production roadmap initiative

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced that it is to develop a roadmap for the commercial scale production of hydrogen using nuclear power. This was because hydrogen was forecast to play a central role in future clean energy systems, especially in the ‘hard to abate’ sectors of the economy, such as steel, chemicals, and the various transport sectors. “Today the vast majority of hydrogen needed across industries is manufactured using fossil fuel technologies (primarily …