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The 'CONFIDENTIAL' marking is on a Valar deck posted publicly on the state's notice website; the Legislature's June 2025 Valar item used state slides without it

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2025-07-08 · dir-038 · Valar Atomics, Utah Public Notice Website, Utah State Legislature, Utah Office of Energy Development

Valar's 12-page deck 'Valar Atomics + SRERC in Emery County' (PDF created 8 July 2025; server date 9 July 2025) is posted on the state-run Utah Public Notice Website as file 1295975, and 11 of its 12 pages carry the line 'CONFIDENTIAL. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE.'; the public body that posted it and the notice it is attached to were not found in the records searched (as of 1 October 2026). Its content (under 250 kW, 30 effective full-power days in 12 months in a temporary facility, commercial deployment by 2028) matches Valar's 8 July 2025 Emery County town hall as reported (orig-045) on the 12-month test and the 2028 commercial goal; the report does not give the power level or full-power days, or call the facility temporary. The Legislature's record of its 18 June 2025 committee meeting lists, for the Valar item, only OED's four-page 'Nuclear Update' slides, whose text carries no such marking (gov-040); Valar's own 17-slide deck filed with the same committee in May 2026 carries none either (gov-019). The marking shows how Valar labeled one deck. The deck itself is public, and the marking on its own does not show that any meeting or decision was confidential.

In plain termsOne Valar slide deck from July 2025 is stamped 'CONFIDENTIAL. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE.' on most pages, yet it is posted on the state's public notice website for anyone to download. The stamp shows how Valar labeled its slides; it does not show that any meeting or decision was closed to the public. The only slides on the Legislature's record for the June 2025 briefing were the state energy office's own, with no such stamp.
verified 2026-10-02: Added 1 October 2026. Read: the Valar deck as posted on the state notice website (PDF created 8 July 2025, server date 9 July 2025; the marking is on most pages); the Legislature's meeting record for 18 June 2025; and the Office of Energy Development's slides (no marking in their text). The May 2026 Valar deck was read in full, page by page. The notice this deck is attached to was searched for and not found.

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