Japan plans world’s first hydrogen production facility using nuclear power
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) plans to request the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) to review its proposal for building a hydrogen production facility as early as February, as reported by The Japan News. The facility, intended to produce hydrogen using heat from a gas reactor, will be located next to the High-Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) in Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture, and will operate integrally with the reactor. If successful, it will be the world’s…