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Hydrogen production, storage, and use at nuclear power plants

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The present status of the problems of safe storage and use of hydrogen in the world hydrogen-energy sector are analyzed. Specific examples of foreign and domestic designs of atomic-commercial complexes based on operating nuclear power plants, viewed as hydrogen producers and users, are presented. A method of producing hydrogen accumulators with cartridges which contain microcapsules or capillaries, made of high-strength materials and filled with hydrogen under high presure (above 100 MPa), is proposed as a promising direction for solving storage and use problems. The mechanisms of introducing/extracting hydrogen into/from microelements in the space of the accumulators up to a working pressure of 0.2–1 MPa are based on diffusion and active thermomechanical principles.

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  1. Institute of Reactor Technologies and Materials, Russian Science Center Kurchatov Institute, Russia

    E. P. Ryazantsev, A. F. Chabak & A. I. Ul’yanov

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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 101, No. 6, pp. 420–426, December, 2006.

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Ryazantsev, E.P., Chabak, A.F. & Ul’yanov, A.I. Hydrogen production, storage, and use at nuclear power plants. At Energy 101, 876–881 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-006-0184-3

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