Valar's Quality Assurance Program Description (October 2025, status 'Approved'; the only published Valar document read that covers the fuel plant) treats the Ward250 reactor and the 'Valarin Fuel Fabrication Facility' as one 'VASR Facility' and scales its quality rules to the facility's 'limited operational duration of approximately 12 months' and 'low hazard category', with full implementation required before fuel receipt. It says the fuel lab will make TRISO particles in graphite compacts using German HOBEG methods and is designed to stay below DOE Hazard Category 3 (orig-038, safe-031). Set beside this: on 11 June 2026 Valar's representative told Orangeville the second building will make Valar 'the largest manufacturer of this fuel in the United States' once completed; July 2026 job posts describe 'pilot scale uranium processing equipment' and a process that 'transitions into production' (loc-019); DOE's program page still lists Valar's fuel-line selection (30 September 2025) as conditional, with no later status; POWER (25 August 2026), listing Valar among 13 projects added to DOE's Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, says Valar is developing a 'co-located Valarin facility' for TRISO particles and compacts, and notes that project scopes were not disclosed. No NSDA, safety analysis, DOE authorization or state license for the fuel plant has been published (safe-031), and no public document says how much uranium it may hold or produce. A quality program sized for a 12-month demonstration is a different thing from a production plant; the record does not show which rules would apply to production. The quality program gives no uranium inventory, enrichment or threshold for its <HC3 claim, and the safety agreement never mentions the fuel facility (it categorizes only the reactor, as Hazard Category 2), so the claim cannot be checked from Valar's public papers.

• Ward250 San Rafael Facility Quality Assurance Program Description, No. 100474, Rev 02 (October 2025) (Valar Atomics, 2025-10) primary company “limited operational duration of approximately 12 months”
• Orangeville City Council Regular Meeting Minutes, June 11, 2026 (Orangeville City, via Utah Public Notice Website, 2026-06-11) primary government “Once completed they will be the largest manufacturer of this fuel”
• TRISO Chemical Plant Process Engineer (Orangeville, Utah) (Valar Atomics (via Greenhouse), 2026-07-16) primary company
• Energy Department Fuel Line Pilot Program (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, 2026-02-12) primary government
• NRIC Adds 13 Projects to Nuclear Energy Launch Pad (POWER Magazine (Sonal C. Patel), 2026-08-25) news “co-located Valarin facility to fabricate TRISO fuel particles and graphite compacts”
• Valar Atomics job board (public Greenhouse feed, 92 postings): Chemical Vapor Deposition Engineer (TRISO), Orangeville (Valar Atomics (via Greenhouse), 2026-07-31) primary company “as the process transitions into production”