India inaugurates world's first nuclear heat-based hydrogen plant using copper-chlorine cycle at Kalpakkam
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Swarajya Staff
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India has commissioned the world's first hydrogen production facility using the copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle, powered by nuclear process heat from the Fast Breeder Test Reactor at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu. The indigenously developed technology demonstrator was inaugurated by the Department of Atomic Energy on 26 June, marking a global first in clean hydrogen production through nuclear-thermal pathways.
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· 3 pulledIndia has commissioned the world's first hydrogen production facility based on the copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle using nuclear process heat.
The facility harnesses heat from the Fast Breeder Test Reactor to produce hydrogen through an indigenously developed process by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai.
Ajit Kumar Mohanty, Secretary of the DAE and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, inaugurated the technology demonstrator.
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