Approved minutes of the Utah Waste Management and Radiation Control Board's 11 June 2026 meeting (approved 9 July 2026) record that, under 'Commissioner Davis's Report', Commissioner Davis said the Valar test reactor in Orangeville (spelled 'Valor') was expected to go critical between then and 4 July. He described it as a small test reactor designed to generate a couple of hundred kilowatts of heat, not electricity. He said that 'once the reactor goes critical (on-line), oversight of the radioactive materials will transition' from the Division to the U.S. Department of Energy. He added that this was the first such transition he had been involved in and that such transitions are expected to become more common. The minutes do not say what radioactive materials were at the site, whether reactor fuel had arrived, or under what state authorization the Division oversaw them. The board's meeting agendas list no Valar item (csite-023); the remark came in the commissioner's report. The meeting audio is posted but was not reviewed. (Updates plan-025.)

• June 11, 2026, Waste Management and Radiation Control Board Meeting Minutes (approved July 9, 2026), Item IX (Utah Department of Environmental Quality (Utah Public Notice Website), 2026-07-09) primary government “once the reactor goes critical (on-line), oversight of the radioactive materials will transition”