Nuclear thermal energy system for industrial gas production
Valar Atomics operates a pilot nuclear reactor facility in Utah designed to produce industrial gases via atomic energy. The tech stack is heavily weighted toward operational technology (ETAP, AutoCAD Electrical, FactoryTalk, Arista, Cisco) paired with modern observability (Grafana, InfluxDB) and cloud infrastructure (Azure), reflecting the complexity of commissioning and scaling a physical nuclear asset. Active projects span reactor commissioning, TRISO fuel fabrication equipment, and OT network hardening—all high-stakes infrastructure work that maps to their pain-point pattern: data loss prevention, storage reliability, and failover redundancy.
Valar Atomics is building a pilot nuclear thermal energy plant in Utah to produce industrial gases. The company, founded in 2023 and based in El Segundo, California, operates with an engineering-forward team (5 engineers, 2 ops staff) focused on bringing advanced reactor systems online and stabilizing FactoryTalk and OT infrastructure. Current work centers on commissioning high-temperature reactor systems, fabricating TRISO fuel equipment, and implementing redundancy and network segmentation to ensure continuous operations. The stack emphasizes operational technology tools (control systems, networking, storage) and real-time observability, typical of early-stage industrial facilities managing safety-critical systems.
A pilot nuclear reactor facility in Utah that produces industrial gases using atomic energy. Current projects include commissioning advanced high-temperature reactor systems and fabricating TRISO fuel fabrication equipment.
Operations technology (ETAP, FactoryTalk, AutoCAD Electrical), networking (Arista, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks), observability (Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf), and cloud infrastructure (Azure). ZFS and Proxmox handle storage and virtualization.
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