U.S.-South Korean Nuclear Hydrogen Research Center Opens

From Fuel Cell Today:

A South Korea-U.S. joint research center opened Wednesday to study ways of using atomic power to produce hydrogen gas, officials said Wednesday.

The center, tentatively dubbed the South Korea-U.S. Nuclear Hydrogen Joint Development Center, is located in Daejeon, South Korea's science mecca, about 164 kilometers south of Seoul.

The research center will be jointly run by the state-run Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, U.S. nuclear technology company General Atomics and Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., a South Korean manufacturer of power-generation equipment, according to the officials at the Ministry of Science and Technology.

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