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. I have deep roots in my birthplace of Utah and a considered love for California, the state I have chosen to call home. California does not need to imitate Utah, but she needs to return to the instincts that once defined this state as the destination for every adventurer. We need to refuse the doom-laced climate rhetoric that treats every power plant as an enemy rather than a tool.