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Aug 12, 2026: the state energy research board's agenda set its meeting at the San Rafael lab, with a public-comment item and a board tour of the lab and Valar listed

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2026-08-12 · gov-042 · Utah Energy Research Board, Utah San Rafael Energy Lab, Valar Atomics

The Utah Energy Research Board's amended agenda for 12 August 2026 (file dated 6 August 2026) places the meeting at the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab, 800 North Coal Haul Rd, Orangeville, 10 to 11 a.m., with a video and phone option. It lists a lab update (item 7), 'OTHER BUSINESS: Open to public comment' (item 13), and, after the meeting, a 'Tour of Utah San Rafael Energy Lab and Valar Atomics for Board Members'. The agenda has no item on a Valar project and does not say whether the public could join the tour. The board's first meeting, on 13 August 2025 in Salt Lake City, at which it approved 'the Valar Project', also closed with a public comment period, in which attendees, per the minutes, expressed appreciation for the board's formation (gov-013). The 12 August 2026 minutes were not read.

In plain termsThe state board that approves projects at the San Rafael lab set its August 2026 meeting at the lab itself in Emery County, with time on the agenda for public comment, and listed a tour of the lab and Valar Atomics for its members afterwards. The agenda does not say whether the public could join the tour, and the meeting's minutes were not read. The board's 2025 meeting that approved Valar's project also ended with public comment.
verified 2026-10-02: Added 1 October 2026. Read the amended agenda (last modified 6 August 2026) and the 13 August 2025 minutes (item 8); quotes exact. The 2026 minutes were not read. On a second check the headline and plain summary were reworded to what the agenda shows: the meeting place, the comment item and the tour are listed; whether the tour took place is not in any record read.

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