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newrecordconfirmed Valar's public safety agreement still lists 4.95% fuel, unchanged in every copy from Nov. 2025 to today
2026-09-29 · dir-009 · Valar Atomics, U.S. Department of Energy

Valar publishes one version of the Ward 250 Nuclear Safety Design Agreement (No. 100403, Revision 02, dated October 2025). The Internet Archive holds seven captures of that PDF (7 November 2025; 1 January, 3 March, 5 July, 6 July, 6 August and 18 September 2026); with the live file Valar Watch fetched on 29 September 2026, all eight are byte-identical (the same SHA-256), and each carries the fuel line 'Fuel Enrichment 4.95% U-235 LEU limits'. So the public copy was not revised after DOE's packaging review approved shipping HALEU fuel to Ward 250 (20 May 2026, safe-010) or after the reactor's first criticality (18 June 2026, orig-010). The agreement itself says that if the fuel differs from its specification, the safety assumptions will be updated in the later Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis, of which no public copy was found (safe-007); an updated analysis may exist. The companion Quality Assurance Program Description (No. 100474, Revision 02) is likewise unchanged across its six copies.

In plain termsThe only safety agreement the public can read still says the reactor's fuel is 4.95% enriched. It has not been changed since at least November 2025, even after DOE approved shipping richer HALEU fuel to the reactor and the reactor started up. The company may have updated its fuel numbers in a later safety analysis, but no public copy of that document was found, so nobody outside can check.
verified 2026-09-29: From Site Watch (pagewatch): 7 copies of the PDF, text extracted with pdftotext -layout, sha256 of the text 252dc930cd13… for all seven (captures 2025-11-07T21:43:56Z, 2026-01-01T09:53:20Z, 2026-03-03T09:09:13Z, 2026-07-05T14:39:16Z, 2026-08-06T15:40:05Z, 2026-09-18T03:29:00Z; plus a direct copy on 29 Sept 2026); the 4.95% line found in each. Raw copies kept in the research archive under pagewatch/. QAPD: 6 copies, text sha 1c3b9ba630aa… for all. Correction 2026-09-29 (proof check): the archive index lists a 6 July 2026 capture the first count missed; seven captures plus the live file, all byte-identical. Correction 2026-10-01 (precision review): wording made more exact against the cited records.

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