Title: Coupling the nickel-iodine-sulphur cycle with a nuclear reactor

Authors: Pier Paolo Prosini

Addresses: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, C.R. Casaccia, via Anguillarese 301, S. Maria di Galeria – 00123 – Roma, Italy

Abstract: Nuclear hydrogen production is a technically feasible and economically viable option for addressing future energy needs. Several projects have been started on the co-generation of hydrogen and electricity from nuclear energy. In this report, the nickel sulphur iodine (NIS) cycle, a thermochemical water splitting cycle originally developed in ENEA for solar hydrogen production, was studied to be coupled with a new generation nuclear reactor for massive hydrogen production.

Keywords: hydrogen production; thermochemical water splitting; nickel; sulphur; iodine; nuclear energy; nuclear power; nuclear reactors.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNHPA.2013.057320

International Journal of Nuclear Hydrogen Production and Applications, 2013 Vol.2 No.4, pp.258 - 268

Received: 21 Oct 2011
Accepted: 12 Feb 2012
Published online: 12 Jul 2014 *

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