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newanalysisconfirmed Stated scope grew from a 12-month test in a temporary facility (2025) to a permanent fuel-and-reactor base (2026)
2026-08-20 · mine-019 · Valar Atomics, Emery County

In July 2025 Valar told an Emery County town hall, and its slides said, that Ward 250 would be a test of about 12 months with 30 effective full-power days in a temporary facility (orig-045), and its safety agreement set a 12-month run and an 18-month life ending in decommissioning (orig-034). The same 2025 slide deck also projected 'Commercial Deployment by 2028', without naming a site. By August 2026 the company described the Emery lab as its 'whole Utah operations' including a fuel facility, was acquiring about 110 acres beside it (mine-018), had applied to BLM for a 10,270-acre site near Green River and a second site (mine-006), and won a lease of up to a century on the Carbon County parcel for a reactor, fuel and industrial campus (mine-010, mine-011).

In plain termsWhat Valar first told Emery County about Ward 250, a short test in a temporary building, has become a plan for a permanent nuclear industry base across both counties. The 2025 slides did say the company aimed at commercial deployment by 2028, but named no site. Plans can change honestly as a company grows; the point is that the public was first told about a small, short test, and the specific larger sites surfaced later, mostly through state and federal land records.
verified 2026-09-29: Re-read 2026-09-29: 2025 deck OCR'd (slide 7: 'operates for 30EFPD, in 12 months in a temporary facility'; slide 6: 'Commercial Deployment by 2028'); August transcript quote exact. Added the 2028 line for fairness.

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