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Atomic-Hydrogen Power Engineering

  • Scientific Session of the General Meeting of RAS Members “75 Years of the Nuclear Industry: the Contribution of the Academy of Sciences”
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This article, based on a report at the General Meeting of Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences on December 8, 2020, deals with research carried out in our country since the 1970s under the “Hydrogen Energy” program, which was coordinated by the Commission on Hydrogen Energy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Work went on at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in close cooperation with research, design, technological, and industrial enterprises of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building, general machine building, energy, the chemical industry, ferrous metallurgy, the aviation industry, and the USSR Academy of Sciences. The concept of hydrogen power engineering with atomic production of hydrogen was named atomic-hydrogen power engineering. The urgency of this problem today and the existing groundwork of research and technological developments open the way for the implementation of atomic-hydrogen energy in our country, recognized as a priority area of scientific and technological development of the Rosatom State Corporation.

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RAS Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Ponomarev-Stepnoi is Scientific Advisor to the Director General of Rosenergoatom Concern JSC.

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Ponomarev-Stepnoi, N.N. Atomic-Hydrogen Power Engineering. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 91, 297–310 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331621030138

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