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Pink hydrogen is produced through electrolysis powered by nuclear energy

Pink hydrogen is produced through electrolysis powered by nuclear energy.1 In this process, water is split into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity generated from nuclear power plants.2 In this wiki we consider pink hydrogen to be a subset of green hydrogen and not a unique form of hydrogen production.

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  1. Koch Blank, T., Molloy, P., Ramirez, K., Wall, A., & Weiss, T. (2022, April 13). Clean energy 101: The colors of hydrogen. RMI. https://rmi.org/clean-energy-101-hydrogen/ ↩

  2. Incer-Valverde, J., Korayem, A., Tsatsaronis, G., & Morosuk, T. (2023). “Colors” of hydrogen: Definitions and carbon intensity. Energy conversion and management, 291, 117294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117294. ↩