India makes hydrogen from nuclear heat, not electricity. Why scientists are thrilled

India's first nuclear powered hydrogen facility sits at Kalpakkam on the Tamil Nadu coast.

India makes hydrogen from nuclear heat, not electricity. Why scientists are thrilled

India has inaugurated the world's first plant that makes hydrogen using nuclear reactor heat instead of electricity. Built at Kalpakkam, the copper-chlorine cycle points to a cleaner, round-the-clock route to green hydrogen.

indiatoday.in | Radifah Kabir | Jun 28, 2026

On a stretch of the Tamil Nadu coast where the sea meets some of the country's most guarded science, a reactor that has hummed for four decades has just done something no reactor anywhere else in the world has done before. The nuclear reactor in India has used its own heat, not electricity, to pull hydrogen out of water.

That single distinction is the reason scientists are calling this a milestone.

A defining milestone in India's clean energy journey!

On June 26, 2026, the Department of Atomic Energy inaugurated what it describes as the world's first hydrogen production facility driven by the heat of a nuclear reactor rather than by electricity. It sits at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research in Kalpakkam.

The plant is small, but its significance is not....more

https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/nuclear-energy-india-hydrogen-heat-electricity-world-first-kalpakkam-fast-breeder-reactor-indira-gandhi-centre-for-atomic-research-2935677-2026-06-27



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