In July 2025 E&E News reported that Valar had not contacted or met with the NRC and quoted CEO Isaiah Taylor asking why a company that believes the jurisdiction is wrong would engage (csite-022); the same month, Georgia Tech nuclear engineering professor Anna Erickson told the Utah Investigative Journalism Project that Valar had submitted nothing to the NRC, calling that secrecy a red flag, while other startups, including co-plaintiff Deep Fission, were in pre-application talks. Valar's job board on 29 September 2026 lists a Director of Licensing who 'serves as the senior company interface with regulators across DOE and NRC engagement pathways' and handles 'multiple concurrent licensing campaigns', plus licensing engineers and a licensing project manager, and a material control and accounting specialist working to DOE and NRC requirements. Whether Valar has opened NRC pre-application engagement could not be checked: nrc.gov refused our reader (HTTP 403).

• NRC lawsuit could hand states power over advanced reactors (E&E News by POLITICO, 2025-07-23) news “Valar Atomics has still not contacted or met with the commission.”
• Who is Valar Atomics? (Utah Investigative Journalism Project with Utah News Dispatch) (Utah Investigative Journalism Project / Utah News Dispatch, 2025-07-08) news “We can't take your word for it”
• Valar Atomics job board (92 open postings, public Greenhouse feed), read 2026-09-29 (Valar Atomics, 2026-09-29) primary company “serves as the senior company interface with regulators across DOE and NRC engagement pathways”