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newrecordreported Deseret News: Taylor founded Valar on July 4, 2023; company is El Segundo-based with a Utah operations director
A Deseret News profile (Eva Terry, March 17, 2026) says Taylor founded Valar Atomics on the Fourth of July in 2023 and calls it an El Segundo-based startup; it names Jess Housekeeper as Valar's director of Utah operations and says the reactor's stackable concrete shielding blocks are made in Salt Lake City. This agrees with Contrary Research's July 2023 date (orig-021) and ANS's El Segundo headquarters (orig-011). The legal entity is confirmed elsewhere (a Delaware corporation, orig-051), but no state record showing the formation date could be read (orig-053).
In plain termsA Utah newspaper reports that Valar was founded on July 4, 2023. The article does not say where the date comes from, and no state record showing the formation date could be read (orig-053).
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