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Testdepth634 t1_isy0pi7 wrote

Reply to comment by sarrcom in Nation’s First Nuclear-Powered Clean Hydrogen Production Announced. The Nine Mile Point Generating Station, the oldest operating U.S. nuclear power plant, will soon house the nation’s first nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility by chopchopped

Some forms of electrolysis (especially solid oxide) require heat that they can make themselves - but at the cost of reduced efficiency. If they can get the heat “free” somewhere else - such as near an industrial process or generator that gives off heat, the efficiency of the entire process can approach 100% - hence why they proposing collocating nuclear and electrolysis .

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