A Tale Of 2 Deserts: Utah, California, & The Race To Power America's Next 50 Years
A Tale Of 2 Deserts: Utah, California, & The Race To Power America's Next 50 Years Authored by Lance Christensen via The Epoch Times, In July, as America turned 250, a reactor the size of a minivan went critical in the red-rock desert of Emery County, Utah. The company that built it, Valar Atomics, isn’t a Utah company at all. It’s based in El Segundo, California, in the shadow of the aerospace giants that once made Southern California the undisputed capital of American engineering. But when President Donald Trump challenged American industry to bring a new nuclear reactor to life by Independence Day, Valar didn’t build its test site in California. It built it in Utah. That single fact says more about where these two states are headed than any think tank report could. I have deep roots in my birthplace of Utah and a considered love for California, the state I have chosen to call home. So, without picking a winner, we need to ask which state will actually do the work of building the next 50 years of American abundance, and why one of them keeps getting in its own way.
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"A Tale Of 2 Deserts: Utah, California, & The Race To Power America's Next 50 Years" — BullBear's AI rates this story as a mixed, direction-neutral signal, with a market-impact score of 0 out of 100. A Tale Of 2 Deserts: Utah, California, & The Race To Power America's Next 50 Years Authored by Lance Christensen via The Epoch Times, In July, as America turned 250, a reactor the size of a minivan went critical in the red-rock desert of Emery County, Utah. The company that built it, Valar Atomics, isn’t a Utah company at all. It’s based in El Segundo, California, in the shadow of the aerospace giants that once made Southern California the undisputed capital of American engineering. But when President Donald Trump challenged American industry to bring a new nuclear reactor to life by Independence Day, Valar didn’t build its test site in California. It built it in Utah. That single fact says more about where these two states are headed than any think tank report could. I have deep roots in my birthplace of Utah and a considered love for California, the state I have chosen to call home. So, without picking a winner, we need to ask which state will actually do the work of building the next 50 years of American abundance, and why one of them keeps getting in its own way. Reported by ZeroHedge on August 11, 2026. The call is verified against the actual 24-hour price move on BullBear's public conviction ledger.
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