Fact safe-033
Valar's NSDA commits Ward 250 to DOE's occurrence reporting order (NE O 232.1), accident investigations (NE O 225.1), ES&H reporting, independent oversight, and DOE's employee concerns and differing professional opinion programs (which DOE-STD-1271 says allow no alternative). DOE's Occurrence Reporting and Processing System page says access to occurrence reports is restricted to approved DOE and DOE contractor personnel; that page describes the department-wide order (DOE O 232.2A), while the NSDA commits to the Office of Nuclear Energy's own order, and whether Ward 250's reports go into the same system is not stated in any record read. No public report of an incident, occurrence, violation, enforcement action or worker injury at Ward 250, NOVA or the fuel line was found in DOE, state or news sources read as of 29 September 2026. OSHA's site refused our reader (robots.txt 403), so its inspection database could not be searched. Absence of a public record is not evidence that nothing happened; DOE's occurrence reports for Ward 250 can be requested under FOIA. Valar's quality program (p.20) cites a different occurrence-reporting order, NE O 232.2; in DOE's own numbering 232.2 (2011) replaced 232.1 (1990s). The NE orders are not public, so which is current cannot be checked.
- Ward250 Nuclear Safety Design Agreement, No. 100403, Rev 02 (status: Draft; issued for Public Release) (Valar Atomics, 2025-10) primary company “Occurrence Reporting and Processing of Operations Information”
- Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environment, Health, Safety and Security) primary government “access to occurrence reports is restricted to approved DOE and DOE contractor personnel”
- 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
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