Nuclear power plants with hydrogen batteries to be developed by Rosatom

Polet-Service will be taking on research for a power supply to be used in remote Arctic territories.Rosatom subsidiary commissioned Polet-Service is preparing to take on research for the development of a power supply that will combine low-power nuclear power plants with hydrogen batteries for use in remote Arctic territories.An official Russian government public procurement website posted documents detailing the intentions.The documents showed that Rosatom will be investing RUB34.45 million (about $462,500) into this work. Rosatom’s customer is the NA Dollezhal Scientific Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering (Nikiet, part of Rosatom). The reason for the project will be to decide on the primary scientific and technical approaches and what must be accomplished in order to develop an autonomous power supply system through the use of renewable energy sources combined with…

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