Advanced nuclear energy · Middle East
Firm heat and power for Gulf industry.
Protogon Energy is developing advanced nuclear reactor modules designed to supply continuous heat and electricity directly to industrial sites.
01/The gap
The Gulf's next loads cannot run on daylight alone.
Primary metals, water, chemicals and data centres run every hour of the year. Solar is inexpensive by day. Gas and oil burned for power have higher-value uses. What is missing is clean energy that is continuous, hot enough for industrial processes, and located next to the load.
Industrial demand continuous
Solar output intermittent
The gap
02/Approach
One module. Heat and power.
A standardised reactor module, designed to sit next to industrial load and supply process heat, electricity, or both.
Output
High-temperature process heat
Heat that industrial processes can use directly, with electricity from the same module. A single module can serve a process line, a grid connection, or both.
Safety
Passive decay-heat removal
Designed so that residual heat is removed passively after shutdown, without reliance on pumps, external power or operator action.
Supply
Established enrichment supply
Designed for uranium enrichment levels already produced commercially, so the programme does not depend on enrichment capacity that has yet to be built.
Lineage
Operating heritage
Based on a reactor type with decades of operating experience across several national programmes. Our work is to design, qualify and take it through licensing for Gulf industry.
03/Applications
The Gulf's largest continuous industrial loads.
Each of these loads runs continuously and draws on heat, electricity, or both. The same module is designed to serve all of them.
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3.1
Industrial power
Primary metals and heavy industry draw electricity every hour of the year. An aluminium potline that loses power can freeze.
Draws on: power.
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3.2
Industrial heat
Chemicals, refining and materials processing depend on process heat, much of it supplied today by burning gas.
Draws on: heat.
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3.3
Water infrastructure
Desalination and district cooling are the Gulf's own baseload. Both can run on heat as well as electricity.
Draws on: power and heat.
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3.4
Data centres
Firm on-site power for large campuses, independent of grid constraints. The heat can also drive the campus's cooling.
Draws on: power and heat.
Further
Hydrogen and derived fuels. High-temperature heat can reduce the electricity needed to produce hydrogen and the fuels made from it.
04/Model
The plant is infrastructure.
The reactor is a module.
We separate the long-lived asset from the technology layer, so that each risk sits with the capital best suited to carry it.
Site boundary
Plant & site
Long-lived civil infrastructure
Owned and financed over decades by sovereign and infrastructure partners, on infrastructure terms.
Reactor module
Supplied, fuelled and serviced
Protogon supplies the reactor module and supports it with fuel and servicing through the life of the plant.
Output
Firm heat and power
Contracted by industrial offtakers under long-term agreements for delivered heat and power.
05/Path
Four stages to first power.
Each stage retires a defined risk before the next commitment of capital.
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01
Design
Core and plant design, benchmarked in simulation against published operating data.
Current stage -
02
Engineering
Heat transfer, materials and key components tested at operating conditions, without nuclear material.
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03
Qualification
Core behaviour confirmed by experiment, and the design prepared for regulatory review.
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04
Deployment
A first commercial module, deployed with an anchor industrial partner in the region.
Regulatory engagement is built into every stage, within each host country's framework and IAEA safety, security and safeguards standards.
06/Region
Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, focused on four GCC countries.
- Bahrain
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- United Arab Emirates
Each deployment will be developed within the host country's national energy strategy and nuclear regulatory framework.
07/Contact
Discuss a regional
opportunity.
We welcome confidential discussions with governments, industrial companies and strategic partners across the region.
Government & regulators
We welcome early engagement with energy ministries, national utilities and nuclear regulatory bodies across the GCC.
Industrial partners
Tell us about a process or a site that needs continuous heat or power. We will outline what a module could do for it.
Strategic partners
Infrastructure, engineering and supply-chain partners with a long-term interest in the region's energy systems.