[see yesterday's items]

* License Renewal Activities - Plant-by-plant status - Sept 30, 2003

* Skull Valley status - Sept 30, 2003

Today's source articles

* Editorial: NRC nomination calls for political hardball
Las Vegas SUN

* 60 Million Acres: Western Shoshones sue for federal land
Samantha Young, Las Vegas Review-Journal

* Disputes Complicate Energy Negotiations
H. Josef Hebert, Las Vegas SUN

* Tough Going as Negotiators Hammer Out Energy Bill
Carl Hulse, New York Times

* Audit finds Lawrence Livemore firearms control weak
San Jose Mercury News

* Woes of a whistle-blower
Ben Jacklet, Portland Tribune

* Fitzsimmons readies for move from Ecology to chief of staff
Chris Mulick, Tri City Herald

* Cantwell proposes study of Hanford nuclear reactor as a museum
Puget Sound Business Journal

* Is The D.O.E. Planning To Leave Its Nuclear Waste In Idaho?
Jon Hanian, KBCI

* Proposal Would Send Radioactive Waste Near Carlsbad
New Mexico Channel

* Davis-Besse leak tests will be visual only
John Funk, Cleveland Plain Dealer

* Davis-Besse plant test completed Monday
Port Clinton News Herald

* ORNL's new, giant electronic brain thinking fast
Frank Munger, Knoxville News-Sentinel

* Department of Energy lag on claims spurs call for probe
Joe Walker, Paducah Sun

* Business group pushes SRS
Josh Gelinas, Augusta Chronicle

* Radioactive materials safely shipped from central Pa. site
NEPA News

* Kewaunee County passes nuclear plant drill without any deficiencies
Kevin Boneske, Green Bay News Chronicle

* Plant down again
Susan Smallheer, Rutland Herald

* Bad VY seal halts startup
Toby Henry, Brattleboro Reformer

* Maine Yankee challenges its tax bill
Bob Kalish, Brunswick Times Record

* Feds Crack Down on Hazardous Cargo
Curt Anderson, The Guardian

* Negawatts - Enron-Style
Joseph Somsel, Energy Pulse

* Concern as Kyoto protocol stumbles
NZ City

* Exhibit dedicated to submarine opens in Plains
Michael J. Ross, Valdosta Daily Times

* Marshall Rosenbluth, nuclear fusion pioneer, dies at 76
San Jose Mercury News

* Marshall Rosenbluth, giant in nuclear physics
San Jose Mercury News

* M. N. Rosenbluth, 76, an H-Bomb Developer, Is Dead
William J. Broad, New York Times

* Report IG-0621: Inspection Report on "Firearms Internal Controls at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory"
DOE (pdf-733K)

* NRC Changes Regulations on Decommissioning Funding
NRC

* NRC to Meet with FirstEnergy on Long-Term Safety Culture Plans
NRC

* Comment on:The Board's Strategic Plan for 2003-2008
NWTRB (pdf-29K)

* The Board's 2004 Performance Plan
NWTRB (pdf-22K)

* NOTICES Meetings: Public Health Service Activities and Research at DOE Sites Citizens Advisory Committee, 56295 [03-24677]
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

* NOTICES Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: University Reactor Instrumentation Program, 56278 [03-24741]
Energy Department

* NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 56340 [03-24843]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Operating licenses, amendments; no significant hazards considerations; biweekly notices, 56340-56350 [03-24477]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Exelon Generation Co., LLC, 56337-56338 [03-24670]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Virginia Electric & Power Co., 56338-56340 [03-24669]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* Axis of evil's twin dominoes looming over US
Tom Plate, Singapore Straits Times

* Election delays Ottawa decision on reactor
Peter Calamai, Toronto Star

* Decision on Bruce PowerÕs operating licence on hold
Christine Brandt, Shoreline Beacon

* A people who dread the day the nuclear cloud will sneak back
Penelope Debelle, Sydney Morning Herald

* US-Taiwan ties are not at risk, defense expert says
Melody Chen, Taipei Times

* The time has come for the world to start saying no to Bush
Joseph Stiglitz, Taipei Times

* Scientist's radioactive revenge
EastDay

* U.S. awaits N.K. disarmament proof
Korea Herald

* N Korea slams door on nuclear talks
Radio Australia

* No more pandering to Pyongyang
Stephen Blank, Asia Times

* N.Korea Spurns Talks, Rattles Nuclear Saber
Martin Nesirky, Reuters

* Chance of North Korea Nuclear Test Said Low
Carol Giacomo, Reuters

* ÔUse renewable energyÕ
Sharon Ling, Malaysia Star

* Thai govt gets green light to build nuclear reactor
Singapore Straits Times

* Building permit approved -- EIA to be updated during construction
Ranjana Wangvipula, Bangkok Post

* Russia to invest $14.5 mln in Kazakh uranium mine
Interfax

* Sofia Set to Build Belene N-plant
Novinite

* Paks reactor block should be restarted until preparations for cleanup take place, says MVM
Interfax

* D-Day for stricken British Energy
BBC News

* British Energy poised for rescue deal
Andrew Taylor, Financial Times

* Nuclear D-day
Helen Logan and Graeme Evans, Middlesbrough Evening Gazette

* Make-or-break day for nuclear power group
Ananova

* Italian Govt. Scrambles As Power Returns
Frances D'emilio, Las Vegas SUN

* Nuclear Proliferation and Romania
Sorin Ducaru, Washington Post

* Deal to secure Russian nuke complex ends
Ian Hoffman, Oakland Tribune

* Rusty and Radioactive
Ashot Sarkissov, New York Times

* Cooperative Ukraine left out in the cold
Doug Bandow, Japan Times

* Gibbons says evidence supported going to war
Steve Tetreault, Las Vegas Review-Journal

* Reid wants to wait, Ensign to deal on Iraq funding
Tony Batt, Las Vegas Review-Journal

* Where I Stand -- Brian Greenspun: Assessing progress in Iraq
Las Vegas SUN

* Disinformation on Iraq
Jeff Kojac, Washington Times

* Bush has a battle on his hands
Jim Lobe, Asia Times

* Cheney's mask is slipping
Jim Lobe, Asia Times

* Leaking of Name Creates White House Storm
Tom Raum, Las Vegas SUN

* Justice Has Many Questions in ID Leak
Curt Anderson, Las Vegas SUN

* One Heckuva Leak
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post

* U.S.-British Differences Show Iraq Intelligence Gap
Walter Pincus, Washington Post

* House panel questions Iraq proof
Mary Leonard and Bryan Bender, Boston Globe

* Open Warfare: Bush Vs. the Intelligence Community
Ivan Eland, Independent Institute

* Leak investigation is first scandal to touch White House
Warren P. Strobel, Knight-Ridder

* Litany Of Lies
David Corn, TomPaine

* Don't Mention The Oil. Or Ask About The Victims
Robert Fisk, Information Clearing House

* Another Falsehood on Iraq Goes Unchallenged
FAIR

* Blair: Three out of five voters say he lied over Saddam threat
Andrew Grice, The Independent

* Paying the price of war in Iraq
Andrew Grice, The Independent

* Foot mounts personal attack on PM's 'lies' over conflict in Iraq
Paul Waugh, Marie Woolf and Barrie Clement, The Independent

* Tony Blair Doesn't Regret War in Iraq
Ed Johnson, Las Vegas SUN

* ElBaradei Needs No Limit on Iran Nuke Inspections
Louis Charbonneau, Reuters

* Nuclear watchdog chief: Inspections in Iran to be ''decisive''
Al Bawaba

* WMD have no place in Iran: Kharrazi
IRIB

* Iran's race for nuclear weapons
Erich Marquardt, Asia Times

* Arabs Criticize Alleged WMD in Israel
Sam F. Ghattas, Las Vegas SUN

* Nuclear watchdog 'ignores Israel'
BBC News