Taylor's public statements on regulation and safety, read at their sources: (1) April 2025, announcing the NRC suit: operating Ward One in a remote US test area 'would not pose a threat' to public health under any reasonable accident, and because the NRC had not exempted it 'we are building and testing this reactor in the Philippines instead'; the same post made the spent-fuel 'CAT scan' claim that engineers disputed, as reported, and for which no supporting calculation was found (safe-026; worked check: pf-007). (2) May 2025: regulation should follow industry (orig-019). (3) July 2025, to E&E News: why engage with a regulator whose jurisdiction you think is wrong (csite-022). (4) November 2025, on X as quoted by Mother Jones: keep civilization alive by treating it as a frontier, 'not covering everything in bubble wrap'. (5) November 2025, NOVA release: zero-power criticality is 'a reactor's first heartbeat, proof the physics holds'. Set beside the record: Valar's first reactor to operate, Ward 250, was built in Utah under DOE authorization, while no public record of what became of the 100 kWt Ward One planned for the Philippines was found as of 2026-09-29 (orig-018); DOE, not Taylor, set the safety limits, and the documents that hold them are largely not public (safe-007); by 2026 Valar was hiring for NRC licensing (safe-032). His own NOVA release states that zero-power criticality proves the physics, not the power: 'Cold proves the physics. Hot proves the power.' (orig-026).

• Valar Atomics is Suing the NRC (Isaiah Taylor) (Valar Atomics, 2025-04-07) primary company “we are building and testing this reactor in the Philippines instead”
• Mother Jones (Kiera Butler), 26 Feb 2026 (May+June 2026 issue) (Mother Jones, 2026-02-26) news “not covering everything in bubble wrap”
• Los Alamos National Laboratory and Valar Atomics Announce Project NOVA Criticality Milestone in Nevada (Valar Atomics, 2025-11-18) primary company “Zero power criticality is a reactor’s first heartbeat, proof the physics holds”