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newcompany claimconfirmed Valar's policy stance: 'regulation follows innovation', DOE as testbed, 'dominance' over non-proliferation
2025-05-23 · orig-019 · Valar Atomics, Isaiah Taylor, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

On the day of the May 23, 2025 nuclear executive orders, Taylor published a long essay welcoming them. It argues that US policy should shift from a non-proliferation focus to 'dominance', that DOE should act as a reactor testbed rather than a second regulator, and that regulation should follow industry rather than precede it; it approvingly summarizes provisions such as abandoning the linear no-threshold (LNT) radiation model and bypassing the NRC for DOE pilot reactors. This establishes the company's public policy position; critics' views of those same orders are covered in government.json and safety.json. Its summary of the orders includes three terms not found in the signed texts: nine military bases (EO 14299 orders one Army reactor at a domestic base), DOE decisions within a one-year timeframe (EO 14301 speaks of operation within 2 years), and fuel approvals under six months (no such term). They may come from same-day White House fact sheets, which we could not read.

In plain termsValar's chief executive argues that nuclear rules should come after a technology is built and tested, not before, and that U.S. policy should aim at 'dominance'. That is the company's political position, and it explains why Valar favors DOE's pathway over the NRC's licensing.
verified 2026-09-29: Verify pass 2 (2026-09-29): essay re-read; dominance, DOE-as-testbed, regulation-follows-industry, LNT and NRC-bypass passages match; quote exact. Correction 2026-09-29 (calculation audit): added the three summary terms not found in the signed orders.

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