[see yesterday's items]

Today's source articles

* Column: 'Totality of the issues'
Steve Sebelius, Las Vegas Review-Journal

* Democracy in Peril
Steve Sebelius, Las Vegas Mercury

* Today in Congress: Energy and Commerce
Washington Post

* U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Cheney Energy Bid
Susan Cornwell, Reuters

* ABC Ships Uranium Overseas for Story
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post

* Feds Mull Charges in ABC News Probe
John Solomon, Las Vegas SUN

* ABC News nukes the law in the name of journalism.
Jack Shafer, Slate

* DOE/NNSA Cites Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for Price Anderson Violation
U.S. Newswire

* Davis-Besse gearing up for 1st trial run
Tom Henry, Toledo Blade

* NRC tells Davis-Besse to prove safety culture
John Funk, Cleveland Plain Dealer

* DOE official: Cleanup on track
Frank Munger, Knoxville News Sentinel

* Fifty years of frozen history
Scott Jones, Oak Ridger

* Mann returns to ORNL
R. Cathey Daniels, Oak Ridger

* New paint on lab facility results in fish kill
R. Cathey Daniels, Oak Ridger

* New TVA reform effort in U.S. House
Oak Ridger

* Factors that could close plant, cited by PACE
Joe Walker, Paducah Sun

* Study Warns of USEC Bumbling on New Plant -- National Security at Risk; Calls for Greater Government Oversight
PRNewswire

* USEC - Heading Into the Perfect Storm?
USEC-Watch

* U.S. Sen. Graham says pit facility hardly a done deal
Jacob Jordan, The State (Columbia SC)

* NRC judge hears arguments about Quakertown irradiator
NEPA News

* Federal agencies will investigate whistle-blower complaint
Naples Daily News

* DEP objects to CCMUA water discharge plan
Brian Arrington, Gloucester County Times

* DEP objects to GEMS cleanup
Lawrence Hajna, Cherry Hill Courier Post

* Fishermen Say Officials Allowing Millstone To Dump Chemicals
Georgina Gustin, New London Day

* Two Years After the September 11th Attacks, Nuclear Plants Are Still Vulnerable
Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen

* Entergy outlines its plans
Susan Smallheer, Rutland Herald

* Feds get Yankee 'uprate' request
Toby Henry, Brattleboro Reformer

* FirstEnergy no stranger to court action
Connie Mabin, Miami Herald

* No problem with Pilgrim?
Doreen Leggett, Upper Cape Codder

* FPL to pay $276.5 mln for 50-pct stake in AmerGen
Reuters

* FPL Energy Announces Agreement to Purchase British Energy's 50 Percent Interest in AmerGen
Business Wire

* Fire reduces power at Pa. nuclear plant
Penn Live

* President Urging Wider U.S. Powers in Terrorism Law
David E. Sanger, New York Times

* Arms Control Association Advisory: New Nuclear Weapons vs. Nonproliferation -- The Choice Before Congress
U.S. Newswire

* DOE Selects New Projects to Control Mercury
DOE

* NRC Amends Combustible Gas Control Standards for Nuclear Power Reactors
NRC

* NRC Issues Final Rule Modifying Seismological Standards for Dry Cask Spent Fuel Storage
NRC

* NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Depleted uranium hexaflouride; long-term management and use; alternative strategies, 53603-53605 [03-23167]
Energy Department

* NOTICES Meetings: International Energy Agency Industry Advisory Board, 53605-53606 [03-23166]
Energy Department

* NOTICES Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; biweekly notices; correction, 53617-53618 [03-23150]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* 'No safe way' to transport N waste
News Limited

* Silex says it's financially sound
Melbourne Age

* Public to be consulted on disposal of nuclear waste
David Ross, Glasgow Herald

* Group worries about reactors
Frankfurter Allgemeine

* Consultation launched on washed up nuclear subs
4NI

* We Must Fight Harder
Whitehaven News

* Russia May Help to Modernise Hungarian Nuclear Energy Sector
Rosbalt

* Sunken submarine to be raised in a year
Russia Journal

* Putin fires Northern Fleet commander after latest nuclear sub sinking
SpaceDaily

* Northern Fleet unable to pay electricity bills
Bellona

* CIA weapons expert to quit after uranium scandal
David Teather, The Guardian

* Digging ourselves out of a hole in Iraq
James O. Goldsborough, San Diego Union Tribune

* Ex-Iraqi information minister agrees to take lid off war secrets
Nadim Kawach, Al Jazeerah

* Hoon criticised for withholding evidence
Gavin Cordon, The Independent

* Hoon regrets 'misunderstanding'
Matthew Tempest, The Independent

* Iraq inquiry leak leaves Hoon at the precipice
Paul Waugh And Kim Sengupta, The Independent

* Hoon regrets Iraq 'misunderstanding'
BBC News

* Folly Taken To A Scale We Haven't Seen Since WWII
Robert Fisk, ICH

* Blair Gets a Pass From Iraq Intelligence Panel
Warren Hoge, New York Times

* Hoon tried to keep dossier worries secret
Michael Smith, Telegraph

* Blair rejected terror warnings
George Jones, Daily Telegraph

* Report goes to heart of war doubts
Nick Assinder, BBC News

* Intelligence worries vindicated as MPs put dossier under the microscope
Paul Waugh And Kim Sengupta, The Independent

* Blair, BBC Stung By WMD Inquiry
CBS News

* IAEA Weighs Oct. Deadline for Iran Nukes
George Jahn, Las Vegas SUN

* Iran Vows to Fight Any Nuclear Deadline
George Jahn, Las Vegas SUN

* Iran Resists Nuclear Statement Deadline
George Jahn, Las Vegas SUN

* UN nuclear agency moves toward setting October deadline for Iran
George Jahn, CBC News

* Official: Iran Plant Deal Could Be Off
Simon Saradzhyan, St Petersburg Times

* Israel wants India to rein in Iran nuclear plans
India Economic Times

* Koeberg pebble bed reactor to cost R10bn
Melanie Gosling, IOL