The NSDA asks DOE to tailor its emergency-management order (NE O 151.1) to 'on-site emergency response only (no off-site planning required)', justified by the worst-case boundary dose and an 800 m distance to the nearest residence (Appendix C.3); it says 'Emergency planning requirements remain limited to on-site response'. It commits to coordination with Emery County Emergency Management, Emery County Fire and local responders: familiarization tours, table-top exercises, hazard information, direct notification links and annual coordination meetings. DOE-STD-1271 lets contractors use equivalent NRC or industry standards 'except where noted'; its Emergency Management entry (NE O 151.1) lacks the explicit 'may choose ... an alternative' sentence most other sections carry, and the Nuclear Innovation Alliance reads the standard as allowing equivalents 'except for Emergency Planning and Cybersecurity'. The standard's general text does still let a contractor request a 'self-generated equivalent' or an exemption for any listed item, decided by DOE's approval authority, so a request like Valar's is not ruled out on its face. Valar's web summary does not list emergency planning among the alternatives DOE approved (safe-005). Local record: the Emery County Fire Protection District's 15 December 2025 minutes record the board discussing the 'nuclear test plant proposed in Orangeville' and its fire protection plans, and the outgoing chair saying he would sign them when the paperwork arrived. No public emergency plan for Ward 250, no record of a table-top exercise, and no public notification arrangement for residents were found as of 29 September 2026. In comments to DOE (March 2026), Uranium Watch said news coverage of the Valar reactor gave no information on emergency response planning, spent fuel or who to contact. The paper's justification (p.54) calls boundary doses under 0.5 rem well below EPA's Protective Action Guides. EPA's lowest guide is 1 rem, a factor of 2, and the paper does not address EPA's 5 rem child-thyroid guide for potassium iodide, although it names iodine-131 as the main dose contributor.

• Ward250 Nuclear Safety Design Agreement, No. 100403, Rev 02 (status: Draft; issued for Public Release) (Valar Atomics, 2025-10) primary company “Emergency planning requirements remain limited to on-site response”
• DOE-STD-1271-2025, Authorization Pathway for Nuclear Facilities (August 2025; DOE standard, copy posted by the Nuclear Innovation Alliance) (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, 2025-08) primary government “NE O 151.1 Comprehensive Emergency Management System”
• A Review of Recent DOE Updates to Its Reactor Authorization Process (Nuclear Innovation Alliance) analysis “Except for Emergency Planning and Cybersecurity, the Standard allows the Contractor to use any equivalent”
• Emery County Fire Protection District Meeting Minutes, December 15, 2025 (Emery County Fire Protection Special Service District, 2025-12-15) primary government “The Board discussed the nuclear test plant proposed in Orangeville”
• Comments regarding DOE categorical exclusion for advanced nuclear reactors, Docket DOE-HQ-2025-0405 (NIRS and 25 co-signing groups incl. HEAL Utah and Uranium Watch) (Nuclear Information and Resource Service et al., 2026-03-04) analysis “did not provide any information about the operation of the test reactor”
• DOE-STD-1271-2025, Authorization Pathway for Nuclear Facilities (August 2025; DOE standard, copy posted by the Nuclear Innovation Alliance) (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, 2025-08) primary government “The Contractor may also request a self-generated equivalent requirement”