A consortium has been awarded funding from the UK Government Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to develop a hydrogen storage solution.

The 7.7 million in funding is from the BEIS £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio.

The HyDUS project, run by the consortium, will produce a hydrogen storage demonstrator chemically bonded to depleted uranium (U-238) in metal hydride form (UH3).

The consortium is composed of EDF UK R&D, University of Bristol, the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and Urenco.