Wesfort Strategy
The way to clean sustainable and affordable energy in Australia
• Be first to market
– Leverage the Australian government and strategic partners to bring HTGR to the market by no later than 2030
• Leverage existing knowledge
– License existing HTGR technology where possible (subsystems, components, fuel)
– Leverage past lessons learned (South Africa/Germany and the USA)
• Simple Product design
– Technically simple to design and operate
– Lowest possible plant/operational cost
• Levelized Cost Of Electricity (LCOE) competitive with alternative fuel sources
– Natural gas combustion turbines
– Advanced nuclear
– Coal
• Obtain NRC “Gold Standard” for safety including similar certification in Australia