[see yesterday's items]

Today's source articles

* Reid stands by NRC nominee; will block Bush
Suzanne Struglinski, Las Vegas SUN

* Letter: Science shows Yucca dump site is unsuitable
Frank Perna, Las Vegas SUN

* Additional toxic dirt to be shipped to Utah
Newsday

* N.M. Firm Gets Yucca Contract
Energy Central

* ORNL merges onto high-speed network
R. Cathey Daniels, Oak Ridger

* Official visit
Oak Ridger

* U.S. and Russia Take Major Steps Toward Shut Down of Last Three Weapons Reactors
DOE

* NRC Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste Elects New Member
NRC

* NRC to Meet with New Jersey Company to Discuss Apparent Violations
NRC

* NRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards to Hold October Meeting in Rockville, Maryland
NRC

* Radioactive Material Removed from Bankrupt Central PA. Site
NRC

* Panel says govt's nuclear reactors waste money
Daily Yomiuri

* China Scientist Sentenced Over Iridium
The Guardian

* N.Korea Demands Treaty as U.S., Seoul Mark Alliance
Reuters

* No more pandering to Pyongyang
Stephen Blank, Asia Times

* North Korean nuclear crisis
Pakistan Daily Times

* EditorsÕ forum ponders how to bell the U.S. cat
Joongang Ilbo

* Nuclear reactor gets govt nod for construction
The Nation

* Are Pressures from the United States, India and Israel Too Much for Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program to Withstand?
Muqtedar Khan, FPIF

* India takes a big leap in nuclear agenda
India Economic Times

* NPCIL to build five reactors
India Business Standard

* Govt approves power supply from Hubco to KESC
Pakistan Daily Times

* Meet the Stans
Simon Reeve, BBC News

* Italy Plans Energy Shake-Up After Blackout
Paolo Biondi, Reuters

* Q and A: Power blackouts
BBC News

* Nonsense: Radiation Accident Occurred Unnoticed
Pravda

* Calling a Lie a Lie
David Greenberg, Columbia Journalism Review

* Dems seek CIA special counsel
Jonathan E. Kaplan And Geoff Earle, The Hill

* Deserting Our Troops
Steven Rosenfeld, TomPaine

* No wonder America has so many enemies
Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun

* Iran: Our Nuclear Activities Are Legal
Sam H. Ghattas, Las Vegas SUN

* Nevada's Yucca Mountain Legal Team
State of Nevada

* Nevada'a Yucca Mountain Lawsuits
State of Nevada (pdf-67K)

* The Energy Bill Gets Worse
New York Times

* Planners considered alternatives to facility
David Sneed, San Luis Obispo Tribune

* No-fly zone for Diablo proposed
David Sneed, San Luis Obispo Tribune

* DOE seeks legislation to reclassify waste
John Stang, Tri City Herald

* Report: Safety Violations Shut Down Work At Two Projects On Fernald Site
WCPO

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

* Steam leak forces shutdown of VY
Daniel Barlow, Brattleboro Reformer

* From windmills to wind farms
Erin Galbally, Minnesota Public Radio

* PROPOSED RULES Rulemaking petitions: Nuclear Energy Institute, 55905-55911 [03-24474]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Decommissioning plans; sites: GSA Watertown property, MA; removal, 56019 [03-24476]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, 56019-56020 [03-24475]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co., 56019 [03-24478]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* Putin Agrees In Spirit but Little Else
Dana Milbank, Washington Post

* Stray Uranium, Corralled
Christian Science Monitor

* Govt urged to reject Jervis Bay as potential nuclear waste site
ABC

* SA Indigenous forum to discuss nuclear dump
ABC

* Aborigines plan anti-dump campaign
Ninemsn

* Environmental activists criticize lax laws
Chiu Yu-Tzu, Taipei Times

* Risks of radioactive pollution must be tackled: environment head
Xinhua News

* S. Korea: Policy May Make North Dig In
Las Vegas SUN

* Japan, South Korea, US meeting in Tokyo on NKorea nuclear crisis
SpaceDaily

* Seoul, Tokyo, Washington Huddle Up
Jung Kwon-hyun, Chosun Ilbo

* Roh Reaffirms Alliance
Choi Won-kyu, Chosun Ilbo

* China, India and possibly Russia to sign non-aggression pact with ASEAN
SpaceDaily

* Nuclear timetable could be used for terrorism
Gareth Bicknell, icNorthWales

* UKAEA Annual Review/Report and Accounts 2002/03
UKAEA

* Winfrith shares decommissioning experience on the international stage
UKAEA

* Dounreay is safe choice for children
UKAEA

* Ukraine upbeat about prospect of EBRD loan to complete nuclear plants
Interfax

* New Criticism on Prewar Use of Intelligence
Carl Hulse and David E. Sanger, New York Times

* Agency Belittles Information Given by Iraq Defectors
Douglas Jehl, New York Times

* Iraq, 9/11 Still Linked By Cheney
Dana Priest and Glenn Kessler, Washington Post

* Bush Aides Say They'll Cooperate With Probe Into Intelligence Leak
Mike Allen, Washington Post

* CIA condemned for flawed intelligence on Iraqi weapons
Andrew Buncombe, The Independent

* Bush officials who leaked name of US spy 'for revenge' could face jail
Andrew Buncombe, The Independent

* Blair: I'm proud of what we've done in Iraq
Andrew Grice, The Independent

* Iran Acknowledges Enriched Uranium Found
Ali Akbar Dareini, Las Vegas SUN

* Iran stands defiant over nuclear programme
Ian Traynor, The Guardian