[see yesterday's items]

Today's source articles

* Backstory: The totality of the lies
Michael Green, Las Vegas Mercury

* Profs get $1 million research grant
Erin Zlomek, Collegiate Times

* Kerry joins effort to stall Leavitt confirmation
Christopher Smith, Salt Lake Tribune

* Leavitt able to keep his cool, and he deserves a chance
Holly Mullen, Salt Lake Tribune

* DOE OKs radioactive waste cleanup
Ian Hoffman, Oakland Tribune

* Franks, Renzi staffers to meet Downwinders
Caleb Soptelean, Kingman Daily Miner

* Lawmakers lobby for sites for nuke work
Josh Gelinas, Amarillo Globe News

* Cotter oil recycled at Tennessee facility
Robin Kepple, Canon City Daily Record

* Some Y-12 guards don't see Wackenhut as nearly perfect
Frank Munger, Knoxville News-Sentinel

* At Y-12, deterrent takes on new look
Frank Munger, Knoxville News-Sentinel

* Nuke waste pit weathers storms
R. Cathey Daniels, Oak Ridger

* Super conductor wire gets a boost with $2.5M contract
R. Cathey Daniels, Oak Ridger

* US Trade Court Hands USEC a Setback
Electricity Daily

* Utilities seek permits for possible nuke projects
Reuters

* Auditors Criticize Agency About Drills on Nuclear Security
Matthew L. Wald, New York Times

* Indian Point forum focuses on shutdown
Roger Witherspoon, NY Journal News

* FirstEnergy failed us in face of Isabel
Mike Argento, York Daily Record

* The Daily Outrage: 30,000 Nuclear Warheads
Matt Bivens, The Nation

* The Threat is Not Gone -- The Second Nuclear Age
David Krieger, CounterPunch

* Energy Department-Funded Projects Win 35 Research and Development Awards
DOE

* Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Oversight of Security at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants Needs to Be Strengthened. GAO-03-752, September 4 (pdf-564K)
GAO

* Highlights
GAO

* NRC Approves Power Uprate for Edwin Hatch Units 1 and 2
NRC

* RULES Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste; independent storage; licensing requirements: Approved spent fuel storage casks; list, 55304 [03-24205]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 55415-55416 [03-24348]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: Construction Inspection Program Framework Document; comments request, 55416 [03-24203]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: Light water reactors using consolidated line item improvement process; hydrogen recombiner and hydrogen and oxygen monitor requirements; model application, 55416-55421 [03-24204]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Duke Energy Corp., 55414 [03-24209]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Hydro Resources, Inc., 55414 [03-24210]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Hydro Resources, Inc., 55414 [03-24211]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Sequoyah Fuels Corp., 55414-55415 [03-24206]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Sequoyah Fuels Corp., 55415 [03-24207]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Sequoyah Fuels Corp., 55415 [03-24208]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* The struggle for Vieques has not ended
Marelys Valencia, Granma International

* Cdn nuclear cleanup cash misused in Russia: Critic
Toronto Star

* Nuclear power plant worker exposed to small amount of radiation during repairs
China Post

* Japan signals shift on $2bn Tehran oil deal
David Pilling, Financial Times

* North Korea tells US to "buckle down" to nuclear crisis talks
SpaceDaily

* Nuclear waste dialogue
Belfast Telegraph

* EU experts to assess BulgariaÕs nuclear plant safety in November
Bulgarian News Network

* Radioactive material reported at Cork fire
Irish Examiner

* Minatom Admits Workers Were Irradiated at Gremikha Naval Base
Rashid Alimov, Bellona

* Russia to build nuclear plants in Indonesia
Bellona

* Russia's Putin Criticizes U.S. on Iraq
Barbara Borst, Las Vegas Sun

* Iraq Weapons Report Won't Be Conclusive
Walter Pincus and Dana Priest, Washington Post

* Draft Report Said to Cite No Success in Iraq Arms Hunt
Douglas Jehl and Judith Miller, New York Times

* CIA says no hard findings expected in report on Iraqi WMDs
SpaceDaily

* US inspectors fail to uncover evidence of Saddam's arsenal
Kim Sengupta and Andrew Grice, The Independent

* No WMD in Iraq, source claims
BBC News

* Key Phrase Was Dropped from UK Iraq Dossier
Katherine Baldwin And Janet Mcbride, Reuters

* U.S. Says Iran Has 'One Last Chance' to Comply
Reuters

* Straw's hope for WMD discovery
BBC News

* Salmond calls for Blair to quit
BBC News

* U.N. finds more enriched uranium in Iran
Reuters

* Transcript: Dr. Condoleezza Rice
FOX News

* Iran: Damned if they do, damned if they don't
Safa Haeri, Asia Times

* Rafsanjani says nuclear talks will proceed at slower pace
Borneo Bulletin

* On eve of inspection, Iran defies IAEA over uranium enrichment
SpaceDaily

* Iran will not give up uranium enrichment: FM
SpaceDaily

* Iran has a month to convince UN weapons inspectors
SpaceDaily

* Bush Pushes Iran on Nuclear Program
Glenn Kessler, Washington Post

* U.N. Finds More Enriched Uranium in Iran
Reuters

* Against Hegemony -- Iraqi Nuclear Scientist Tells All in New Book
Firas Al-Atraqchi, Islam Online

* Anti-Islam axis goes nuclear
Timur Moon, Al Jazeera