info nuggets - Sept 26, 2003

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Today's info nuggets

[see yesterday's items]

Today's source articles

* Anti-Nuclear Pioneer Plots a New 'Bombing Run'
Nora Boustany, Washington Post

* Stop funding nuke programs
Kathy Campbell-Barton, Salem Statesman Journal

* Bush's Unofficial Official Secrets Act
John W. Dean, FindLaw

* Leavitt knows his EPA future is out of his hands
Dan Harrie, Salt Lake Tribune

* UC lab official on leave after audit questions
Associated Press/San Jose Mercury News

* High level of radioactive contaminant found in Idaho aquifer
Arizona Republic

* Expert touts 'exciting future' for INEEL site
Danelle Miller, Idaho State Journal

* Davis-Besse trial run encounters obstacle
Toledo Blade

* Move afoot to break sick worker logjam
R. Cathey Daniels, Oak Ridger

* Sick worker hearings
Oak Ridger

* ORNL wins four R&D 100 Awards
Oak Ridger

* Slight contamination found on worker's pant cuff
Oak Ridger

* Wamp Secures Funding For East Tennessee Technologies
The Chattanoogan

* Exelon seeks nuke site approval
Eric Freehling And Edith Brady-Lunny, Bloomington Pantagraph

* Exelon Is the First to File an Early Site Permit Application With NRC
PRNewswire

* Nuclear power plants in jeopardy after violations
Kirtan Gandhi, Badger Herald

* Local nuclear plant contains design flaw
Will Rosenthal, Duke Chronicle

* Critic: Plant's tube crack is hazardous
Susan Morse, Hampton Union

* Owners dispute plantÕs value
Susan Morse, Hampton Union

* PSEG's N.J. Salem nukes start to exit outage
Reuters

* Women's group stands against Indian Point plants
Roger Witherspoon, NY Journal News

* A New Weapon in the Doomsday Arsenal -- The Strangeloves Win Again
Brian Cloughley, CounterPunch

* Government AuditorÕs Report Highlights NRCÕs Failure to Effectively Regulate Nuclear Plant Security
Wenonah Hauter, Public Citizen

* Making plans they hope to never use
Jacque Steubbel, Pulaski Citizen

* Cold fusion provides the promise of infinite energy
The Triangle

* Energy Department Names Lansing, Michigan to Clean Cities Program
DOE

* Energy Department Awards $2 Million to the Pinellas Plant Community Reuse Organization
DOE

* Department of Energy Issues Order on Cross Sound Cable
NRC

* NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 55597 - 55598 [03 - 24637]
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

* NOTICES Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies Program, 55598 - 55599 [03 - 24349]
Energy Department

* NOTICES National Energy Technology Laboratory - U.S. colleges and universities; advance coal research, 55599 - 55604 [03 - 24350]
Energy Department

* NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Florida Power Corp., 55662 - 55663 [03 - 24357]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Meetings: Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee, 55663 - 55664 [03 - 24359]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Meetings: Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee, 55664 - 55665 [03 - 24360]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., 55660 - 55662 [03 - 24356]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* Nuke cleanup cash controversy in Russia
Edmonton Sun

* A look at issues nobody's talking about
Ian Urquhart, Toronto Star

* Candu operators in blackout probe
Peter Calamai, Toronto Star

* Bunker offers window into Cold War era
Mary Ellen Macintyre, Nova Scotia Herald

* Man who flew over Pickering nuclear plant poses no threat: judge rules
Allan Woods, National Post

* Broken Hill to be represented at nuclear waste meeting
ABC

* Govt plans 10 facilities to monitor nuke tests
Daily Yomiuri

* DPP lawmakers slam EPA chief's request on referendums
Cathy Chou, China Post

* Presidential Determination Regarding KEDO Funding
PRNewswire

* 'N.K.'s security concerns must be allayed'
Seo Hyun-jin, Korea Herald

* South Korea wants nuclear dispute with North resolved before sending troops to Iraq
Sang-Hun Choe, Boston Globe

* Analysis:Seoul links Iraq troop to N.Korea
Jong-Heon Lee, UPI

* Roh Confirms Dispatch-Talks Link
Shin Jung-rok, Chosun Ilbo

* Wake-Up Call on N. KoreaÕ Secrete Nuclear Experiment
Dong-a Ilbo

* Kazakhstan: Questions remain about waste dumps in Mangistau
IRIN

* Uzbekistan, EU to cooperate in nuclear energy sector
UZ Report

* Wars never stop polluting
Bharati Chaturvedi, Hindustan Times

* Sellafield Promises 'Updates' for Ulster
Billy Kennedy, icNorthern Ireland

* Dispute over nuclear waste
B92

* Rolls Royce Nuclear Safety Reviewed
UK: HSE

* Alstom sells off UK plants
BBC News

* CICU: Impoverished Uramium Not Tied to Dead Soldiers
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

* What's Good for Russia Is Good for America
Robert McFarlane, New York Times

* Twelve Russians exposed to radiation at nuclear dump
TerraDaily

* Irradiated Nuclear Cleanup Workers Denied Medical Care for More Than a Month
Charles Digges, Rashid Alimov and Igor Kudrik, Bellona

* The treaty that isn't
Russia Journal

* Moscow to control storage of Russian uranium in US
Russia Journal

* The Failure to Find Iraqi Weapons
New York Times

* Washington's fact problem
Charlotte Observer

* Waiting Game
Mother Jones

* Editorial: The tragic cost of a rash Iraq war
Toronto Star

* Editorial: The Daily Flip-Flop on Iraq
Los Angeles Times

* Arab Perspective: America slowly sinking in the quicksand of Iraq
Gulf News

* Bush's tame U.S. media may yet have teeth
Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun

* French 'Deck' Bush, Rummy
CBS News

* Cook's remorse over Iraq war
BBC News

* Howard war case collapsing: Labor
The Australian

* U.N. Finds Iran Arms-Grade Uranium Traces
George Jahn, Las Vegas Sun

* Inspectors in Iran Find Highly Enriched Uranium at an Electrical Plant
Felicity Barringer, New York Times

* U.N. Nuclear Inspectors Delay Trip as Iran Prepares
Reuters

* Iran casts shadow over Bush-Putin summit
SpaceDaily

* UN watchdog mission to Iran delayed
IRIB

[see yesterday's items]



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