Roughly six hundred million people in Sub-Saharan Africa have no electricity. Without power there is no clean water at scale, no cold chain for medicine, no irrigation, no industry. TexasNexus exists to change that: advanced nuclear campuses that make their own power and their own clean water, proven first in the Permian Basin of West Texas, built to go anywhere.
That single number sits underneath almost every other hardship on the continent. Without power there is no clean water at scale, no cold chain for medicine, no irrigation, no industry, no modern education. Energy poverty is water poverty, health poverty, and opportunity poverty, all at once.
A region with no grid does not need a grid. It needs a campus that makes its own power and its own clean water. That is exactly what TexasNexus is building: a self-contained model, proven first in the Permian Basin of West Texas, then deployed where the need is greatest. Abroad and at home, wherever unusable water meets unmet demand.
West Texas is the proving ground. Africa is the destination. TexasNexus exists to prove a model that ends energy poverty, one self-contained campus at a time.
TexasNexus is nuclear first by design. Advanced nuclear is the only energy source that delivers firm, around-the-clock power and high-temperature process heat from a compact site, without a grid, without weather dependence, and without emissions. It is the foundation every other part of the model stands on.
TexasNexus is developing the site, stakeholder, water, and infrastructure foundation required to support next-generation reactor deployment in West Texas. We are the origination and site-readiness layer, not a technology company.
Next-generation reactors provide dispatchable baseload power and high-temperature heat. That combination is what makes industrial-scale water treatment, desalination, and energy-intensive Permian Basin operations possible.
These are not theoretical designs. Advanced reactor developers are completing licensing processes, signing deployment agreements, and moving into fabrication. Passive safety architecture has fundamentally changed the risk profile.
TexasNexus doesn't build reactors. We build the conditions that allow next-generation infrastructure to succeed.
The Permian Basin produces millions of barrels of produced water every day, a waste byproduct of oil and gas extraction that the industry pays to dispose of. Conservation asks how to use less water. Conversion asks a better question: how do we turn bad water into good?
Necessary, and not enough. Conservation manages scarcity. It does not create supply, and it does nothing with the billions of barrels of wastewater the oil field generates every year.
Paired with nuclear power and heat, produced water can be treated for beneficial reuse: clean water for agriculture, for industry, and ultimately for people. A liability becomes the most valuable resource in West Texas.
West Texas is the proving ground. It has the produced water, the land, the workforce, the regulatory momentum, and the technology partners. TexasNexus is building a working prototype in the Permian Basin: a self-contained campus that makes its own power and its own clean water. Everything about it, the site playbook, the water pairing, the permitting path, is built to be repeated.
Nowhere on earth concentrates more produced water than the Permian Basin. Disposal capacity is tightening and Texas has opened the door to beneficial reuse. The feedstock for conversion already exists at scale.
Permian operations require around-the-clock electricity for lifting, injection, compression, and processing. Firm nuclear power meets a demand profile that intermittent generation cannot serve alone.
West Texas offers large-tract sites with the acreage, topography, and rights structures that advanced nuclear deployment requires, connected to existing transmission, rail, and highway infrastructure.
The Permian workforce already runs complex, safety-critical industrial systems every day. Advanced nuclear deployment builds directly on that discipline, and builds durable economic opportunity in return.
The campus is a single integrated system, not a collection of facilities. The reactor powers everything inside the fence. Its heat treats the water. The water cools the systems, grows the crops, and serves the people. Nothing on campus depends on a grid, and everything on campus feeds something else.
↻ The loop closes: treated water returns to cool the systems that treat it
Advanced reactors supply every watt the campus consumes, plus high-temperature process heat. The campus is fully self-powered: no grid connection required to operate, which is exactly what deployment in unelectrified regions demands.
Nuclear process heat drives thermal desalination and treatment of produced water at industrial scale. Thermal processes handle the high-salinity, high-complexity water that membranes alone cannot, turning the oil field's hardest waste stream into clean water.
A share of the treated water returns as cooling for the power island and industrial systems. The campus cools itself with the water it creates, closing the loop and eliminating dependence on scarce freshwater sources.
Converted water irrigates agriculture on campus and beyond it, turning desert acreage productive. Reliable water plus reliable power is the formula for food production in arid regions, in West Texas and everywhere the model travels.
The end goal of conversion is water clean enough for human use. As treatment standards are met, the campus becomes a source of water for communities, the fullest expression of turning bad water into good.
Surplus electricity and water leave the fence. In the Permian Basin that means anchor tenants like data centers, which need exactly what the campus produces: firm power and industrial-scale cooling. It also means oil field operations, industry, and regional communities. In deployment abroad, offtake is the mission itself.
If the model works in the Permian Basin, it works. The hardest conditions are the best teacher, and West Texas is how we earn the right to build everywhere else.
TexasNexus engages the full stakeholder ecosystem a nuclear campus requires: land, water rights, regulation, reactor technology, offtake, workforce, and supply chain.
TexasNexus is engaging with major Permian Basin landholders, produced water operators, and water rights holders whose infrastructure position is directly relevant to large-scale campus development in West Texas.
TexasNexus has evaluated advanced reactor technologies capable of supporting both firm electrical generation and industrial process heat. Reactor selection is guided by deployment readiness, safety, operational compatibility with water infrastructure, and long-term site integration.
TexasNexus is actively engaging with the Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office (TANEO), state economic development bodies, and regional stakeholders to ensure alignment with Texas priorities in advanced nuclear deployment.
TexasNexus engages with industry stakeholders and potential collaborators in the normal course of business development. References to organizations on this page reflect strategic relevance and active engagement. They do not imply executed partnerships, binding commitments, or formal agreements unless expressly stated.
TexasNexus is led by professionals with experience across advanced nuclear deployment, strategic partnerships, industrial development, supply chain strategy, and initiative building in complex energy and technology environments.
Tad Wiginton brings extensive experience in strategic deal-making, infrastructure development, and building initiatives from the ground up in complex industrial and energy environments. His work spans commercial development, client partnerships, and the structuring of large-scale projects requiring multi-stakeholder alignment. Tad is TexasNexus's primary field presence across West Texas, building the landowner, operator, and community relationships the prototype requires. His grounding in Texas infrastructure and energy realities shapes TexasNexus's practical development approach.
Tom Cherryhomes has spent thirty years in technology, supply chain, and strategic partnership development. His career spans technology-driven supply chains across manufacturing, robotics, and AI, with deep operational experience on both the customer and service provider sides of complex global logistics: factory allocation, bill of materials management, long-lead and short-lead component planning, and the strategic calculus of nearshoring versus offshoring. He has worked extensively in Southeast Asia understanding how supply chains function at the ground level, from shipping and factory operations to vendor qualification and capacity development. As Chairman, Tom provides strategic oversight and partner leadership, bringing the discipline of large-scale technology deployment to the governance and long-term direction of the TexasNexus platform.
Sean Walsh brings more than 30 years of senior experience in federal and state government, policy, regulatory strategy, and communications. He served on the White House staff of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and has since advised governors, national corporations, and multi-national clients navigating the collisions between regulation, policy, and public affairs. A principal at Wilson Walsh, Sean works across regulatory challenges, political strategy, media and communications, and government relations at the federal and state level. He serves on the Statewide Leadership Council for the Public Policy Institute of California and the advisory board of the World Affairs Councils of America. Sean brings to TexasNexus deep federal government fluency and the kind of cross-jurisdictional regulatory and political expertise that a large-scale advanced nuclear initiative requires.
Jackson Edgar brings active nuclear research expertise from Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the United States' premier nuclear science and engineering institutions, combined with advanced academic work in nuclear engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His involvement with TexasNexus reflects the initiative's commitment to grounding its development strategy in serious technical expertise and the leading edge of American nuclear science.
Ernie C'deBaca brings more than four decades of leadership experience at the intersection of energy, government affairs, and regional economic development. He previously served as Vice President of Governmental Affairs for PNM Resources, where he led legislative, regulatory, and public policy engagement across multiple jurisdictions, including extensive work with policymakers and stakeholders in Texas and throughout the Southwest. Ernie currently serves as President and CEO of the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce, where he advances business growth, entrepreneurship, and cross-sector collaboration across New Mexico and the broader region. At TexasNexus, Ernie provides strategic guidance on government relations, stakeholder engagement, regional partnerships, and the policy frameworks necessary to support large-scale infrastructure, energy, and economic development initiatives.
Brad Edgar was born and raised in Midland, Texas and holds land in the Permian Basin, giving him a firsthand stake in the region's energy and resource future. A PhD mechanical engineer from UC Berkeley, Brad has built a career as an inventor, technology developer, and entrepreneur focused on combustion, engines, and emissions. He is the CEO of Red Fox Resources and the inventor or co-inventor on 11 United States Patents. In 2011 he received the Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award from the California Air Resources Board, and he currently serves on the UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering Department Advisory Board. Brad brings to TexasNexus deep Permian Basin roots, serious engineering credentials, and the perspective of a landowner with a long-term interest in how West Texas develops.
Dan Byerly is with Ekdahl Real Estate, specializing in West Texas land and site development, and brings deep regional experience in land transactions, large-acreage properties, rural markets, commercial banking, agricultural credit, and site-level development considerations across West Texas.
Dan has more than 28 years of combined experience across real estate, banking, credit analysis, loan servicing, and relationship management. His background includes senior roles at Hamlin National Bank and Capital Farm Credit, giving him practical fluency in landowner relationships, rural financing, property diligence, and the commercial realities of assembling sites for long-term infrastructure development.
For TexasNexus, Dan provides advisory perspective on West Texas land strategy, site identification, landowner engagement, transaction practicality, due diligence, and local-market dynamics relevant to advanced nuclear infrastructure development. His experience with major West Texas land opportunities strengthens TexasNexus's ability to evaluate deployment sites with local credibility and practical execution discipline.
We add advisors deliberately, when a specific gap needs filling. On the technical side the open seats sit in advanced reactor engineering and licensing, produced water treatment at industrial scale, Permian land and mineral rights, and federal regulatory strategy. We are looking just as hard for the disciplines that hold a build like this together: product management, alliance management, and project finance for first-of-a-kind infrastructure.
If that describes your work, and a prototype in West Texas is something you want to see built, we would like to hear from you.
Start a conversationWe welcome inquiries from regulators, potential partners, landowners, produced water operators, industrial stakeholders, workforce and supply chain participants, and investors with an interest in advanced nuclear deployment in Texas.
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