The report – titled On the Role of Nuclear Power in the Development of a European Hydrogen Economy – calls for policies designed to boost the clean hydrogen sector to be technology neutral. These policies, it says, should acknowledge that both renewable energy and nuclear power are low-carbon sources of hydrogen production and should be treated equally.
Using nuclear power to produce hydrogen has several advantages compared to using intermittent renewables, NNWI says. Its study found that per unit of installed electrolyser capacity, nuclear power can produce 5.45 times as much clean hydrogen as solar can and 2.23 times as much as wind power can.
