So just as jennifer westacott said, " the government should be pick winners."
A bit like ASC, they could bring together some civil engineers, import a couple of Nuclear physicists ( do we have any in Oz?). Create a one off design for thorium reactors ( LFTR ), and given we have the biggest reserves of thorium in world export the design on a licencing agreement , and supply the refined thorium product to power said reactor.
Slightly off tangent I was watching how south korea can keep the costs down on building new Nuclear reactors, its seems they keep to the same design and the same contractors.
