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Fact loc-012

newanalysisconfirmed Valar before Carbon audiences, June to Sept 2026: no report or minutes read name the Wellington site
2026-09-17 · loc-012 · Valar Atomics, Price City Council, East Carbon City Council, Carbon County Commission, Cory Gardner, Harry Hansen, Jess Housekeeper, Max Ukropina

Valar's appearances before Carbon County public bodies and audiences in 2026, with what the record of each shows: 24 June, Price City Council, public comment: Cory Gardner and Harry Hansen on Ward 250 reaching 'full power' and a future community event (ETV, ppl-026); the city's minutes record only 'an update on the progress of the company'. 1 July, Carbon County Commission: commissioners celebrated Valar's Emery reactor and NVIDIA plan (ETV; minutes, csite-026). 21 July, East Carbon City Council: four Valar staff presented the test reactor's start, helium cooling, local hiring and tours by appointment (ETV, 23 July); the posted agenda lists no Valar item, and East Carbon's minutes for July and September were not posted as of 29 September (its latest posted minutes are for 16 June). 12 August, the Carbon & Emery Energy Collaborative in Price: plans to manufacture reactors and fuel (loc-002). 12 August, Price City Council work session: the mayor welcomed Valar's Jess Housekeeper and colleagues 'to highlight the new nuclear energy plant in Orangeville', and future plans for that facility (workshop minutes). 19 August, Carbon County Commission, 'Valor Atomics presentation': Max Ukropina and Cory Gardner on the Orangeville reactor, which they called 'walk-away safe', local hiring, and a town hall in Price and an open house 'within the next 30 to 45 days' (minutes; mine-013). 1 September, East Carbon City Council: a Valar representative 'formally introduced the company' and announced the open house (ETV, 4 Sept); the agenda listed 'Valar presentation'. 2 September, Carbon County Commission: open house on 10 September and a town hall for Carbon County residents in late September or early October (ETV; minutes, csite-026). 9 September, Price council work session: staff reported a 'Valar Atomics field trip' set for 24 September (workshop minutes). 10 September, open house in Orangeville for both counties (loc-001). None of these records mentions Wellington, trust land, a lease or a Carbon site; the state board heard the lease on 20 August and approved it on 17 September in Salt Lake City (mine-014, mine-011). Price's regular council minutes of 22 July, 12 August, 26 August and 9 September have no Valar item. The records are summaries (ETV reports and minutes), not transcripts, so a passing mention cannot be ruled out; the 19 August county meeting audio would settle that one meeting (carbon_site.json open questions). The promised Carbon County town hall had not been found held or scheduled as of 29 September 2026 (csite-028). Earlier, in October 2025, the local paper had reported a Valar plan for a Carbon County manufacturing hub, without a site (loc-034).

In plain termsBetween June and mid-September 2026 Valar's staff spoke to the Price and East Carbon city councils, a Price council work session, the Carbon County Commission twice, an energy meeting in Price and an open house. In every report and set of minutes we could find, they talked about the Emery test reactor, jobs and events, not about the land north of Wellington the state was about to lease to them. That land was discussed at the state board in Salt Lake City. This is the clearest support in the record for the feeling that 'nobody knew' about the site, although a Carbon County factory plan had been in the local paper in 2025; the record does not show why the site went unmentioned.
verified 2026-09-29: Re-read all cited pages and Price's minutes one by one. Correction: the pass said Price minutes from 8 July to 9 Sept had no Valar item; the 12 Aug Price work-session minutes record a Valar presentation and the 9 Sept work session a Valar field trip (no 8 July minutes are posted). Neither names the site, so the finding holds. Added the 19 Aug minutes' 'walk-away safe' and town hall promise, and the Oct 2025 Carbon plan report.

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