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Fact plan-017

newrecordconfirmed Every Valar site on record, Sept 29, 2026: one test reactor, one lease, three pending BLM files, one stalled abroad
2026-09-29 · plan-017 · Valar Atomics, Bureau of Land Management, Utah Trust Lands Administration, Emery County

Built or operating: Ward 250 and its fuel lab at the San Rafael lab, Emery County (plan-002); the company's design, machining and test shops in Hawthorne/Torrance, California (plan-008). Used once: the NOVA test core at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center, Nevada, operated by Los Alamos in November 2025 (orig-008). Being acquired: the 112-acre Emery County parcel beside the lab (gov-022, loc-014). Lease approved: on 17 September 2026 the state trust-lands board approved a lease with purchase option for 480 acres of the section north of Wellington, with the other 160 acres to follow if the National Guard's lease there is moved (mine-011, plan-016); no record read shows the lease signed. Applied for: three Bureau of Land Management cases, all in the Price Field Office, all 'Pending' on 29 September 2026: UTUT106784007 'Green River Gigasite Small Modular Reactor/Data Center' (10,270.61 acres, filed 13 February 2026, which Valar told The Washington Sun it no longer pursues, mine-008), UTUT106801248 'Project Beehive Small Modular Reactor/Data Center' (case date 13 April 2026, no acreage shown), and UTUT106833224, a distribution-line case with no name (entered 23 July 2026). NPR reported on 30 September 2026, citing a Valar proposal to federal regulators that NPR reviewed, that Project Beehive would cover over 9,000 acres of BLM land near Price with data centers, some 456 small reactors of 25 megawatts of electricity each, a fuel facility and nuclear-waste storage, with the first reactors in 2028; BLM's Utah office told NPR it had received an application and was reviewing it for completeness. The proposal itself was not found in public records. No BLM rights-of-way case names Valar outside Utah, and its other public layers show no Valar claims, notices, leases or permits (mine-005, mine-030). Program: NRIC's August 2026 Launch Pad round includes Valar; POWER describes Ward 250 and the Valarin facility (gov-010). Abroad: Ward One in the Philippines, announced March 2025 and still unbuilt and without an approved site as of the last report read (orig-064). Valar says it looked at more than 20 states (ppl-006, loc-001); no site in another state was found in any public record read.

In plain termsHere is the whole map as far as public records go. One small test reactor is running in Emery County, next to a fuel lab. The reactors are built in the Los Angeles area. Valar is buying land next to the Emery lab and has state approval to lease most of a square mile of state land in Carbon County. It asked the federal land agency about three more Utah sites, one of them over 10,000 acres near Green River, which it now says it dropped. NPR has since reported that another, 'Project Beehive' near Price, is planned for about 456 small reactors on over 9,000 acres of federal land. A planned reactor in the Philippines has not been built.
verified 2026-09-29: Verify pass 2026-09-29: BLM layer re-queried (CUST_NM_SEC like VALAR): three Utah cases, all Pending, Price Field Office; Green River 10,270.61 acres, case date 13 Feb 2026; latest modification 15 Sept 2026. Fixed: lease wording overstated (board approval; initial 480 acres; signing not found); Launch Pad wording corrected. Correction 2026-09-29 (wording review): earlier fix note reworded (lease wording).

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