KOSEN 한인과학기술자네트워크

First Information Exchange Meeting Paris, France 2-3 October 2000 The meeting was attended by 39 participants from 9 countries and 3 international organisations. The participants' expertise spanned the relevant areas of chemical and nuclear engineering, as well as broad environmental and energy supply science and technology. Nineteen papers were presented in four technical sessions: Twenty-first centruy energy perspectives related to hydrogen utilisation The first session contained four papers covering more general issues such as the global energy situation, the possible role and acceptablity of a hydrogen-based energy infrastructure and a historical and futuristic view of decarbonisation. Ongoing and in-development R&D programmes on nuclear production of hydrogen. The session concerning R&D programmes on nuclear production of hydrogen gave an overview of the present status of R&D in Japan. France and Italy, as well as in other international organisations such as the IAEA and the EU. Physics and chemistry of hydrogen production methods. The third session, covering the physics and chemistry of hydrogen production methods, began with a review paper entitled “Open questions and research topics on nuclear hydrogen“, followed by four technical papers describing different techniques and methods for the production of hydrogen using thermo-chemical methods. Applications of nuclear technology for hydrogen production The final session on applications of nuclear technology for hydrogen production started with a presentation on problems related to the transportation of hydrogen, which was then followed by five papers describing different nuclear energy systems for the production of hydrogen.