Programmes and agreements / prg-ph-stgr20-letter-of-intent

Southern Infrastructure and Kaizen ANZ letter of intent for a 40 MW thorium STGR20 reactor in the Philippines (2023)

On 9 October 2023 in Adelaide, the Philippine Trade Secretary witnessed a letter of intent by Australia's Southern Infrastructure, with Kaizen ANZ, to develop an initial 40 MW thorium-fuelled STGR20 gas-cooled reactor in the Philippines. The developer describes STGR20 as a scalable SMR. No host, site or licence application is recorded.

Not a deployment project. SMR plans, agreements, studies and government programmes that are not (yet) a single deployment project. They are listed separately and are never counted as projects or reactors.

Type

Cooperation agreement or MOU

Countries concerned

Philippines

Participants and roles

• Developer or vendor: Southern Infrastructure Pty. Ltd.
• Developer or vendor: Kaizen ANZ Pty Ltd
• Government: Department of Trade and Industry (Philippines)

Designs named

STGR20 (Simple Thorium Gas-cooled Reactor) (no design profile)

Scale as stated

initial 40 MW thorium-fuelled STGR20

Announced or first reported

9 Oct 2023

Status

Status not established
Letter of intent witnessed by the DTI Secretary, no Philippine host, site, licence application or utility agreement found.

Confidence

medium

Last checked

2026-10-14 (record review date, not proof of current activity)

Related deployment projects

• No related deployment project is recorded here.

Sources

• DTI Secretary Pascual encouraged AU businesses to invest in PH (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-14)
• Aussie firms offer to build 40-MW thorium reactor in PH (directory_or_aggregator, published 9 Oct 2023, accessed 2026-10-14)
• Current Projects (company_primary, accessed 2026-10-14)