The Utah Investigative Journalism Project's 'Who is Valar Atomics?' (Eric Peterson, 8 July 2025, with Utah News Dispatch) is the only investigative piece on Valar by a Utah newsroom found; its report of engineers' CT-scan calculations is cited elsewhere here only as reported, with the engineers' inputs unknown, until their own posts are archived (the claim itself: safe-026; a worked check: pf-007). It also reported: that over a dozen advanced reactor companies were listed on the NRC's website, 'but not Valar', while co-plaintiff Deep Fission was; that Valar's top engineers came from Ultra Safe Nuclear, which went bankrupt and sold its intellectual property to Nano Nuclear (ppl-015), with a University of Utah law professor noting possible litigation over ideas staff learned at earlier employers; that TRISO fuel is very robust but very expensive, with engineer Nick Touran saying 'just the fuel cost alone prevents that from even making sense at all' for factory-built reactors, and that maintaining a thousand-reactor farm would kill the concept; Touran's warning, 'In nuclear, an incident anywhere is an incident everywhere'; Georgia Tech nuclear engineer Anna Erickson: 'I don't know how you can claim your design is so safe without doing engineering'; and the state energy office director: 'Just because we have that MOU, there's still not a commitment at the moment'. Valar and its head of operations did not respond to the reporter's requests. Other Utah coverage found is news or opinion, not investigation: Salt Lake Tribune editorials (May and November 2025), a Utah News Dispatch opinion column (March 2026) drawing on Mother Jones, and the Tribune's republication of ProPublica (dir-011).

• Who is Valar Atomics? (Eric Peterson, Utah Investigative Journalism Project with Utah News Dispatch) (Utah Investigative Journalism Project, 2025-07-08) news “In nuclear, an incident anywhere is an incident everywhere”
• Who is Valar Atomics? (same article: Anna Erickson) (Utah Investigative Journalism Project, 2025-07-08) news “I don't know how you can claim your design is so safe without doing engineering”
• Tribune editorial: Spencer Cox's nuclear dream for Utah deserves careful scrutiny (headline only; paywalled) (The Salt Lake Tribune, 2025-05-30) analysis