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State boards and legislators heard about Valar's Emery reactor; no agenda found names the Carbon site

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2026-09 · csite-031 · Utah Legislature, Utah Energy Council, Utah Office of Energy Development, Southeastern Utah Association of Local Governments, Utah Nuclear Consortium

Agendas on the Utah Public Notice Website and legislative materials read in late September 2026: the Legislature's Public Utilities, Energy & Technology Interim Committee heard 'Valar Atomics Nuclear Test Reactor' on 18 June 2025 (its agenda describes a plan for 'a new nuclear test reactor running by 2026', and the approved minutes record public comment on the nuclear discussion later in that meeting; gov-040); slides for the Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Interim Committee's 19 August 2026 data-center item list the 'Valar Atomics-Nvidia Partnership' as an example; the Utah Energy Council's 31 March 2026 agenda has 'Valar Atomics at San Rafael Lab Update', with a general public-comment item next on the agenda (gov-041; its 31 March and 29 September 2026 agendas also list closed sessions on buying, exchanging or leasing real property, unnamed); the Southeastern Utah Association of Local Governments (SERDA) board agendas list 'Valar Atomics Groundbreaking' (September 2025) and 'Nuclear Community Campaigns' updates (May and July 2026); the Utah Nuclear Consortium's 25 March 2026 agenda discusses its new duties under S.B. 135 and H.B. 78. None of these agendas or the attachments read names the Wellington parcel, Section 16 or a Carbon County campus. No Valar item was found in the Carbon Community Economic Development Board's notices since June 2025, and the Carbon County Redevelopment Agency's four notices (September to December 2025) have none. For most of these meetings, minutes or audio were not found or were not read. The Energy Council's approved 7 July 2026 minutes, the transcript of its 25 August 2026 meeting and its 29 September 2026 agenda were also read: none names Valar or a Carbon site.

In plain termsValar's reactor in Emery County has been discussed repeatedly by state boards and legislators, in public. Several of those meetings also had public-comment periods, listed on their agendas or recorded in their minutes (gov-040, gov-041, gov-042). The Carbon County site has not appeared on any of their published agendas that we found. What was said inside closed sessions or in meetings without posted minutes is not known.
verified 2026-10-02: Holds, with fixes: the slides' author is not named in their text, so the attribution to the Office of Energy Development was removed; the SERDA September 2025 'Valar Atomics Groundbreaking' item was added. Re-read in late September 2026: PUET agenda (June 18, 2025); the 8/19/2026 slides; UEC notices (6 Feb, 6 Mar, 31 Mar, 'May 26' listed with a 26 June event date); UNC 25 Mar notice; SERDA notices 25 Sept 2025, 28 May and 16 July 2026; CEDB and RDA lists (Utah Public Notice Website notice lists, read again). Second check, late September 2026: UEC notice list: closed real-property sessions on 13 agendas (30 Oct 2025 to 29 Sept 2026), not four; RDA body 3749 lists four notices (3 Sept to 15 Dec 2025), none naming Valar, so 'no notices were listed' was wrong; UEC minutes 1480375, transcript 1480517 and agenda 1493643 searched (no Valar, Carbon, Wellington, trust lands). Date set to the as-of date of this negative finding. Corrected 2026-10-01: wording made more exact against the cited records.

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