A Review on Nuclear Energy-Based Hydrogen Production Methods

The majority of the world hydrogen production today is introduced through a more CO2 intensive process from fossil fuels by steam reforming, coal gasification and methane partial oxidation followed by electrolysis of water and biomass gasification. The intense research should be triggered to find out better energy options with low emission, increasing global warming caused by the combustion of fossils fuel. The requirement for the climate action now, therefore, is based on nuclear energy, and this present review presents the recent advances in green H2 production and introduces one of the attractive approaches to achieve large quality of hydrogen by using efficient ways for commercial applications in the near future. Producing a large-scale source of H2 from nuclear energy has potential to play without greenhouse gas emission. Among nuclear energy methods of hydrogen production, (Cu–Cl) cycle is preferred as its lower temperature requirement, safe operation and better overall efficiency than the rest thermochemical cycles.