ORANGEVILLE — Business expansion, workforce development, and efforts to retain young people in southeastern Utah were among the major topics discussed Tuesday, Aug. 25, during a meeting of the Carbon/Emery Economic Development Group.
Emery County officials are preparing for the potential of a second round of flooding following heavy rainfall and flash flooding that impacted several towns in late August. Cleanup efforts continue across the region as emergency management monitors rising water levels in several creeks and streams.
Workers continue to prepare the facility at Valar Atomics in Orangeville on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, for a small modular reactor. New technologies pioneered in Utah allow for less water consumption — or no water consumption at all — to cool data centers, including the Novva Data Center and Valar Atomics's waterless reactor.
