EE Capital develops ELYON-5® as a 5 MWe electric / 16.7 MWth thermal advanced microreactor power platform engineered for factory production, passive sodium heat-pipe cooling and water-free operation. Fuel basis: HALEU TRISO.
America’s advantage in artificial intelligence, defense, advanced manufacturing and critical infrastructure depends on abundant, resilient domestic power. ELYON is being developed in Washington, D.C. as an American factory-manufactured nuclear platform designed to strengthen U.S. energy security and industrial capacity.
Dispatchable generation for data centers, government, industrial facilities, infrastructure and microgrids.
HALEU TRISO fuel, with fuel-cycle services performed by qualified third parties.
Passive sodium heat-pipe cooling without active primary coolant pumping or water-dependent reactor cooling.
No water supply is required for reactor cooling — a material advantage where water is constrained or strategically undesirable.
Standardized modules intended for repeatable manufacturing. Initial capacity target: 500 units per year — equivalent to 2,500 MW of distributed or centralized generation capacity.
A proprietary replaceable core-cartridge architecture supports successive operating cycles while retaining the generating asset.
The factory concept concentrates fabrication, assembly and inspection in a controlled environment using robotics, automated material handling, digital work instructions, metrology and AI-enabled production analytics.
The program is being structured around NQA-1 quality assurance, traceability, configuration control, supplier qualification and documented acceptance of safety-significant work.
ELYON-5 is the 5 MWe base unit; smaller classes extend the platform to lower-power mission profiles across commercial, industrial, federal and defense applications.
Dedicated long-duration electricity for hyperscale computing, AI infrastructure and high-availability campuses.
Process industries, critical infrastructure, grid support and centralized multi-unit energy campuses.
Resilient domestic power for federal facilities, defense installations, strategic programs and high-demand systems, including directed-energy and laser-support loads where required.
Remote communities, secure microgrids, communications infrastructure and other locations where water or transmission is constrained.
Conventional nuclear delivery is dominated by site-specific engineering and field construction. ELYON is being developed to shift more work into controlled factory production while site preparation proceeds in parallel. For the United States, faster repeatable deployment is not only a commercial advantage; it is an industrial, technological and national-security advantage.
We sell electricity. EE Capital develops, finances, owns, operates and ultimately decommissions ELYON generation assets. Data centers, government and defense facilities, must-run industrial loads and other critical infrastructure can contract for power under PPAs of up to 30 years.
Dedicated ELYON capacity is intended for customers that value long-duration, high-availability electricity and predictable energy supply.
A protected two-level block houses 50 ELYON-5 units per level. Five repeatable 100-unit blocks scale a centralized campus to 500 units / approximately 2,500 MWₑ while keeping the surface footprint low and concentrating shared security, access and electrical infrastructure.
Where below-grade construction is not preferred, standardized reinforced halls can house large groups of ELYON-5 modules with shared lifting access, service aisles, electrical collection and security. Capacity can be added hall by hall as customer demand grows.
Compact protected pods can place a smaller number of ELYON-5 units close to data centers, federal and defense facilities, industrial loads and resilient microgrids. Additional pods can be added incrementally as demand expands.
EE Capital is engaged with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on ELYON-5 through the advanced-reactor pre-application process for early technical and regulatory interaction.
Qualification activities are underway across the ELYON-5 component and fuel supply chain.
Ayntrazi's career has followed a continuous path from hands-on engineering and entrepreneurship, through international energy project finance and nearly US$10 billion of closed transactions, into executive-level utility transformation and nuclear development. ELYON-5 is the culmination of that progression: engineering discipline, project-finance rigor, utility operating perspective and direct nuclear fuel-cycle experience brought together in one generation platform.
After earning an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering, Ayntrazi worked as a site engineer while completing a Master's in Civil & Environmental Engineering. The combination established an early grounding in physical infrastructure, construction execution and systems thinking.
An early entrepreneurial period took him outside engineering into two ventures running in parallel. He grew a retail concept from one to seven outlets and ultimately sold the franchise to a Pepsi-Cola bottler, using the proceeds from that exit to return to Washington, D.C. and continue his education. At the same time, he was developing a greenfield, high-volume automated pneumatic LPG filling station designed for approximately 50,000 units per day. The contrast between a consumer-driven retail business and an engineering- and infrastructure-driven energy project crystallized his decision to dedicate the rest of his career to the energy sector. He then returned to graduate study in International Business Management at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business and completed an MS in Finance at George Washington University.
While building his finance career, Ayntrazi worked with Steve Denning in the World Bank's Knowledge Management program and then with Washington-based, government-focused boutique investment banks on international energy, IPP and infrastructure project-finance transactions. His work involved U.S. government and multilateral institutions including U.S. Ex-Im, OPIC — now the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation — and World Bank Group institutions, before continuing at Taylor-DeJongh.
In 2002 he moved from Washington to Abu Dhabi and later Riyadh with Charles River Associates (CRA International). Over roughly 11 years he rose to Vice President, Partner and Officer in Charge for the Middle East, running regional operations, P&L and major client relationships while advising governments, ministries, boards and utilities on strategy, restructuring, transactions and transformation.
When CRA exited the Middle East, key clients continued to seek Ayntrazi's involvement. EE Capital was effectively established in 2013 as an advisory platform and Energy & Environment Capital LLC was subsequently established in Delaware in 2019. Through that platform, his work deepened into CEO, Chairman and Board-level advisory roles, including CEO Advisor and Shadow CEO responsibilities with Saudi Electricity Company across enterprise transformation, generation, grids, investment, M&A, privatization, renewables, digital transformation and prospective cross-border nuclear opportunities.
While advising Saudi Electricity Company, Ayntrazi was introduced to emerging U.S. small modular reactor and microreactor technologies through engagement with the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Embassy. He was encouraged to support U.S. advanced-nuclear engagement in the Middle East and subsequently explored opportunities for U.S.-designed SMRs with government and energy-sector stakeholders in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt.
At Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, Ayntrazi served as CEO Advisor and Business Development Lead as the UAE's four-unit nuclear program advanced. A major focus was development of a potential domestic nuclear fuel-fabrication capability, including two years of technical, regulatory, legal, commercial and financial work across the fuel cycle and first-hand diligence at major fuel-manufacturing operations in the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and South Korea.
Current figures are shown only to convey the scale of the institution, not the scale during Ayntrazi's tenure. Asset value is converted at the 3.75 SAR/USD peg.
ENEC reports four APR-1400 units totaling 5,600 MW and supplying approximately 25% of UAE electricity. Latest ENEC reporting cites an overall project-financing requirement of approximately US$27.2B. Source: ENEC ↗
Why it matters to ELYON. The platform reflects a career spent understanding energy from multiple angles: engineering and construction, nearly US$10 billion of closed project-finance and investment-banking transactions, utility operations and transformation, nuclear development, legal and regulatory execution, and the commercial fuel cycle. That perspective informs ELYON's emphasis on simplicity, resilience, manufacturability, repeatability and full-lifecycle execution — grounded in a practical understanding of what utilities, infrastructure owners, lenders and long-term power customers require.
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