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Utahns want to ask questions about a nuclear startup. So far, there's been no public hearing to let them.

By Salt Lake Tribune · October 30, 2026 · 1 min read
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Kim Wilcox wanted to ask about the heat that comes off a nuclear reactor. Wilcox and her family own a small ranch outside Wellington in Carbon County, where 30 head of cattle live about a mile from where Valar Atomics is proposing to build a network of small modular reactors to power manufacturing and data centers.

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