Their claims, annotated
The only Valar safety paper for Ward 250 found in public records lists 4.95% (ordinary) uranium. Valar's own Los Alamos release a month later calls the same fuel HALEU, and DOE's shipping review cleared shipments of HALEU of up to 19.9%…
See both sides and the sources →At Emery County's June 2025 hearing on nuclear industries, the state's lab director called the meeting 'the first of many' and said nothing was being kept from anyone; the state's signed agreement with Valar, then a month old, said the…
See both sides and the sources →Valar's public claim that holding its spent fuel for five minutes equals a CT scan concerned Ward One, a planned 100 kWt reactor with a planned lifetime under a month, and gave no cooling time.
See both sides and the sources →The only Valar safety paper for Ward 250 found in public records lists 4.95% (ordinary) uranium. Valar's own Los Alamos release a month later calls the same fuel HALEU, and DOE's shipping review cleared shipments of HALEU of up to 19.9%…
See both sides and the sources →The public safety paper describes its design core: 76 elements of 4.95% fuel. DOE's shipping approval covers 24 elements of fuel up to 19.9% enriched under one letter amendment, and a Valar speaker says the core is 'very lightly loaded'…
See both sides and the sources →Valar's public claim that holding its spent fuel for five minutes equals a CT scan concerned Ward One, a planned 100 kWt reactor with a planned lifetime under a month, and gave no cooling time.
See both sides and the sources →The accident inventory assumes 30 full-power days at 100 kW (3 MWd), matching every other Valar statement of the plan. One line of the same draft sets the burnup limit at 30 megawatt-days, ten times that, and its method statement calls for…
See both sides and the sources →In the draft, 650°C is the maximum outlet temperature (a safety limit tied to material limits) and the fuel's normal maximum; 750°C appears as a performance goal 'under normal operations' and as the temperature for a cautious vessel creep…
See both sides and the sources →Valar asked DOE to require only on-site emergency response and told DOE that state-DOE notification agreements and local drills would back it up. No DOE decision on the request, state-DOE agreement, emergency plan or drill record was found…
See both sides and the sources →DOE confirmed Ward 250 was a DOE-authorized reactor when it went critical. DOE's Office of Environmental Management confirmed on 14 July 2026 that its staff took part in the federal readiness review for the four pilot reactors, naming Ward…
See both sides and the sources →Utah's open-meetings law says public boards must announce meetings a day ahead, say on the agenda what they will decide, and not decide anything that was not on it.
The evidence →Emery County residents got meetings, a hearing about selling land, open houses, many presentations, and public-comment periods at state meetings whose agendas included the project or a board tour of the lab and Valar (gov-040, gov-041…
The evidence →Utah has several ways to give companies tax incentives for building in rural areas. The port authority counts Valar's expansion land beside the Emery lab inside one of them, though Emery County voted in May 2026 to remove that parcel and…
The evidence →At Emery County's June 2025 hearing on nuclear industries, the state's lab director called the meeting 'the first of many' and said nothing was being kept from anyone; the state's signed agreement with Valar, then a month old, said the…
See both sides and the sources →Officials described Valar as open and hiding nothing. Their words can fairly be read as praise of Valar's public education and its openness with the county and the board, which the record supports (the county worked with Valar from early…
See both sides and the sources →A lode claim asserts a discovered vein. The public mineral records for the area show only gravel, which cannot be claimed, and a gas obtained by lease. Most of the claimed quarter-sections are private surface, and the notice's survey tie…
See both sides and the sources →No claimant may fence off a claim, build on it or keep people out without BLM's approval, or use it for non-mining purposes. These rules apply to anyone who occupies, fences or restricts access to a claim on public land that BLM manages…
The evidence →The two safety papers Valar has made public were not listed in any saved copy of its website library from October 2025 to September 2026. They are online, but a visitor browsing Valar's library would not find them; you need the exact link.
The evidence →If something goes wrong at a DOE-authorized reactor, the operator must report it to DOE in a formal 'occurrence report'. DOE's occurrence database is open only to approved DOE and contractor staff, for every facility in it (DOE cites…
The evidence →Here is the whole map as far as public records go. One small test reactor is running in Emery County, next to a fuel lab. The reactors are built in the Los Angeles area.
The evidence →The two counties agreed to share the cost of a paid consultant whose job is to bring in new industry, nuclear included. Both counties took it up in public meetings, and it shows they are actively recruiting new industry.
The evidence →Small-scale exploration on a claim can start after a notice to BLM that the public never gets to comment on. Mining, and larger exploration, needs an approved plan, and those are published for comment.
The evidence →The rule does not by itself require public notice when a company files for public land. Public involvement comes mainly through BLM's environmental review and any public meetings BLM decides to hold, announced in the Federal Register.
The evidence →The county commissioners' next regular meeting should be Wednesday, October 7 at 4:30 p.m. in Price; no agenda for it was on the state notice website as of 2 October.
The evidence →A big land-use permit near Wellington is up on October 6: a technology park on about 1,240 acres of private land east of town, where the developer has said it plans gas-fired power plants. No link to Valar was found in the records read.
The evidence →When a U.S. company sells shares privately under the SEC's Regulation D rules, it files a short public notice called a Form D, listing its officers and directors and how much it sold.
The evidence →In August 2026 Valar announced $1 billion from investors led by Sequoia, one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms, plus a $200 million loan facility.
The evidence →Valar's first chain reaction happened inside a government laboratory, on government equipment, run by national-laboratory scientists at a federal site in Nevada. By the release's account, Valar provided the core and the fuel.
The evidence →In November 2025 Valar raised $130 million from three venture firms and several well-known defense-technology figures, bringing its total to about $150 million. No valuation for this round was found in the news and investor reports read.
The evidence →By Valar's account, Carbon County, two state offices and the regional development agency SERDA had been talking with Valar since 2024, at first about making fuels from coal-plant exhaust; a county commissioner said the county had worked…
The evidence →A nondisclosure agreement (NDA) is a contract to keep talks confidential. A Carbon County commissioner said in public that such agreements come up in economic-development talks and are usually the company's demand, not the county's, and a…
The evidence →Two Carbon County commissioners, speaking at a public meeting as the local paper reported it, described Valar's test reactor as a 'commercial' reactor and its planned data center as needing no water.
The evidence →A Utah newspaper reports that Valar was founded on July 4, 2023. The article does not say where the date comes from, and no state record showing the formation date was found in the records read.
The evidence →None. The promised criticality came on 18 June 2026, ahead of the 4 July goal and of Valar's own 30 June target. What was achieved was a zero-power criticality; full power and electricity rest on Valar's account.
See both sides and the sources →None for Emery County: Valar went before local bodies often and opened its site. This finding does not extend to the Carbon County site (csite-026), and minutes are summaries, so how complete the answers were cannot be judged.
See both sides and the sources →None: the state's production figures support the commissioner's statement; they show no Carbon County output in 2020 through 2024, the latest year reported (mine-039), so if anything the period is longer than four years.
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