Ward 250 is not built to supply the grid: its July 2026 electricity demonstration used a thermoelectric generator and ran one server (ETV; plan-010). The next step Valar has shown is a heat-to-electricity program. On 11 February 2026 the Utah Energy Research Board heard a Valar proposal, presented by the lab director, to build a 10 MW (thermal) natural-gas-powered heater at the lab to test supercritical-CO2 power generation; Valar would fund the whole $20 million, the equipment would become lab property, and Valar asked for completion by June 2026. The board approved only a $400,000 'Phase 1' of design and planning, to re-evaluate before construction (gov-014). No Phase 2 approval, air permit or completion was found. Valar's job board (29 September 2026) has eight turbomachinery roles in Torrance for a 'secondary loop Brayton cycle' on helium, supercritical CO2 or air, with 'a purpose-built test facility program' (plan-011); the posts do not say where that facility will be. DOE's environmental review of Ward 250 says 'No combustion processes occur' at the reactor; a gas-fired heater at the same lab would be a separate project with its own review, and none was found.

• Utah Energy Research Board Meeting Minutes, February 11, 2026 (Utah Energy Research Board, via Utah Public Notice Website, 2026-02-11) primary government “Valor requested an aggressive completion date of June 2026.”
• Director Instrumentation, Control, and Electrical - Power Conversion (Torrance, California) (Valar Atomics (via Greenhouse), 2026-06-30) primary company “secondary loop Brayton cycle”
• NEPA Determination DOE-ID-26-005: Valar Ward250 Research Reactor (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, 2026-04-22) primary government “No combustion processes occur.”
• Emery County takes center stage as Valar and Nvidia power historic breakthrough (ETV News (Kevin Butler), 2026-07-01) news “converted into electricity through a thermoelectric generator”