A deal has been struck to explore the production of clean hydrogen using Rolls-Royce’s proposed small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear power plants.
The memorandum of intent between UK-based Rolls-Royce SMR, Netherlands’ nuclear development company ULC-Energy and Denmark-based Topsoe, which carbon emission reduction technologies, commits the companies to investigate how clean hydrogen could be produced using electricity and heat generated by next-generation SMR plants.
Rolls-Royce SMR is one of six companies to advance to the next phase of a UK government competition to design and build SMRs to generate nuclear power.