Two ETV News items from 2025, eleven months or more before the Wellington lease vote, show that a Valar project in Carbon County was in the local paper in general terms. On 17 September 2025 ETV printed the state Office of Energy Development's groundbreaking release (orig-067); its 'About Valar Atomics' paragraph says Valar 'is building America’s first nuclear gigasites', which it defines as clusters of thousands of high-temperature reactors. On 10 October 2025 an ETV article on the San Rafael lab, quoting lab director Jaron Wallace, reported that after about three years, once Valar completes its reactor and proves it can be run safely, 'their current plan is to build a manufacturing hub in Carbon County', which could bring hundreds of jobs to Carbon and Emery; it also said Valar was looking at powering data centers. The article does not say who told ETV about the Carbon plan, names no site, and says nothing about trust land or reactors in Carbon County. In sum, a Carbon County project by Valar was public in general terms from October 2025; the Wellington location, the trust-land lease and the plan for a reactor, fuel and industrial campus there were not found in any local record before the state vote (loc-011, loc-012, loc-032). The lease was approved about eleven months after the article, sooner than the 'after three years' it described.

• Valar Atomics breaks ground on test reactor at the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab (ETV News reprint of a Utah Office of Energy Development release) (ETV News, 2025-09-17) news “Valar Atomics is building America’s first nuclear gigasites”
• What’s actually happening at the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab? (Susanna Watts) (ETV News, 2025-10-10) news “their current plan is to build a manufacturing hub in Carbon County”