Nearly 10,000 acres of Utah public land could host 456 nuclear reactors — enough power for 7-8 million homes, but none of them will get any of that power

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Project Beehive plans 456 reactors across more than 9,000 acres

The proposed 9.6GW is 2.4 times what Utah generates on average today

Power enough for 7 million homes will go to data centers instead

Valar Atomics has filed a proposal to place 456 nuclear reactors on over 9,000 acres of federal land around Price, Utah, supplying computing facilities with 9.6GW — a project called Project Beehive.

Each unit would generate 25MW, so the modular layout allows…