Hydrogen nuclear production

While contributing 17% of electricity generation world-wide, nuclear energy currently contributes only 7% to primary energy. Save a few exceptions, including electricity generation, the diverse applicability of nuclear energy which was envisioned at the start of the nuclear age has not yet been put into widespread practice. With emerging issues such as sustainable development of world economies, the capacity of nuclear energy to deliver heat that is free from greenhouse gas emissions offers a renewed incentive to consider a broadened, energy-intensive product mix. One possibility would be to use heat from nuclear power plants to produce hydrogen through water splitting, using thermo-chemical methods. (author)