The startup's proposal, reviewed by NPR, lays out plans for the site on land held by the Bureau of Land Management. Beyond the reactors and data centers, the project would include a facility to produce nuclear fuel and separate sites for storing nuclear waste.
Together, the reactors would generate roughly 9.6 gigawatts of power for the data centers, plus additional thermal heat the company says could serve other industrial uses. That scale goes far beyond anything currently operating in the area. It would also mark one of the largest concentrations of small nuclear reactors proposed anywhere in the country.
For the region around Price, a project like this would bring a massive shift in land use, energy infrastructure, and industrial activity on federal ground. Data centers already draw huge amounts of power nationwide to run computing and artificial intelligence systems, and Valar Atomics is betting that stacking hundreds of small reactors in one place can feed that demand directly.
The company's founder has said he wants to "make nuclear great again," and this proposal shows just how far that ambition reaches, from a single startup pitch to 456 reactors spread across public land in rural Utah.