[see yesterday's items]

Today's source articles

* Yucca backers lobby Congress on funds
Suzanne Struglinski, Las Vegas SUN

* UNLV scientists asked to study Yucca radioactivity
Mary Manning, Las Vegas SUN

* Letter: Negotiate now for benefits from Yucca Mountain
Rebecca Smith, Las Vegas SUN

* Editorial: A please-do-soon list for local government
Pahrump Valley Times

* A fresh look at federal issues
Mark Waite, Pahrump Valley Times

* Nuke Waste 'Class' Dispute
CBS News

* Energy Dept. Seeks Power to Redefine Nuclear Waste
New York Times

* Efforts to redefine nuke waste criticized
Las Vegas SUN

* Electricity Deal in Energy Bill 'Close'
H. Josef Hebert, Guardian

* Alaska pipeline project, tax issues stalls energy talks
H. Josef Hebert, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

* Energy bill is bad idea made worse
Seattle Post Intelligencer

* Odds for coastal cash 'fairly good,' Tauzin says
Bill Walsh, Times-Picayune

* Program To Help Sick Workers Faces Backlog
ONN

* San Onofre power plant builds above-ground storage vaults to keep used nuclear fuel on site
Matthew T. Hall, San Diego Union Tribune

* Ousted Official Back at Nuke Lab
Noah Shachtman, Wired News

* Hastings' indecision comes late in dispute
Tri City Herald

* Officials push bills to study B Reactor
John Stang, Tri City Herald

* Former Idaho Governor Urges State To Hold D.O.E. To 1995 Agreement
Jon Hanian, KBCI

* Lockheed Martin Idaho official testifies on Pit 9 cleanup model
Steven Friederich, Idaho State Journal

* Little Boy Exhibit Reopens
PRNewswire

* Oak Ridge's high-risk waste should be cleaned by 2008
The Tennessean

* OR contractor gets new pact
Frank Munger, Knoxville News-Sentinel

* Bill to fix Department of Energy lag gets OK by union
Joe Walker, Paducah Sun

* Phosphate woes heating up legislation
Greg Martin, Venice Gondolier

* Pollution puts officials in hot seat
Elizabeth Bluemink, Pensacola News Journal

* Settlement reached to clean up radioactive dump site in Glen Cove
News 12 Long Island

* Blackouts? Edison Might Say, 'I Told You So'
Jill Jonnes, New York Times

* Reactor will power down for repairs
Richard Raeke, St. Petersburg Times

* VY spurns coalition sanctions
Toby Henry, Brattleboro Reformer

* Big tax hike stuns Maine Yankee
Dennis Hoey, Portland Press Herald

* Remarks by President Bush and Russian President Putin
PRNewswire

* CBI Announces its Nuclear Power Outlook 2004 Conference
Business Wire

* Applying Physics and the Law
Toni Feder, PhysicsToday

* Bush Signs $368 Billion Defense Bill
Las Vegas SUN

* DOE Awards Key Cleanup Contracts to Small Businesses; Section 8 (a) Businesses to Perform Cleanup Work at Small Sites
U.S. Newswire

* Secretary Abraham Announces Agreement Reached for Oak Ridge on Accelerated Cleanup Contract
U.S. Newswire

* Energy Department Awards Key Cleanup Contracts to Small Businesses
DOE

* Secretary Abraham Announces Agreement Reached for Oak Ridge on Accelerated Cleanup Contract
DOE

* Secretary Abraham Attends Chicago Climate Exchange Launch
DOE

* Inspection Functions for Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Facilities Assigned by NRC to Atlanta Regional Office on October 1
NRC

* NRC's Region I Office Now Responsible for Region II Materials Licenses
NRC

* NRC Board Issues Order Approving the Settlement of Civil Penalty Proceeding Involving an Easton, Pa., Company
NRC

* NOTICES Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: Nuclear Engineering Education Research Program, 56624 [03-24873]
Energy Department

* NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory BoardÑ Hanford Site, WA, 56625 [03-24870]
Energy Department

* NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory BoardÑ Oak Ridge Reservation, TN, 56625-56626 [03-24871]
Energy Department

* NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory BoardÑ Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, KY, 56624-56625 [03-24868]
Energy Department

* NOTICES Meetings: American Statistical Association Committee on Energy Statistics, 56628 [03-24869]
Energy Information Administration

* NOTICES Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.: Licensing Support System Advisory Review Panel, 56654-56655 [03-24852]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Meetings: Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee, 56655 [03-24851]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Meetings: Reactor Safeguards Advisory Committee, 56655 [03-24853]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* Hidden In Plain Sight
TomPaine

* WNA News Briefing Update
WNA

* Lepreau retrofit likely delayed till 2008
Tali Folkins, Canada East

* Nuclear waste transport under the microscope
Shane Desiatnik, Blue Mountains Gazette

* Filipinos pay dearly for nuke plant boondoggle
Asia Times

* Hope for further N Korea talks
BBC News

* S. Korea Links Iraq Troops to N. Korea
Soo-Jeong Lee, Las Vegas SUN

* November N.Korea 6-Way Talks Possible-Envoy Kelly
George Nishiyama, Reuters

* DPRK to boost nuke capability
EastDay

* US Gingerly Weighs Proposal for NK Talks
Seo Soo-min, Korea Times

* Troop Dispatch Contingent On NK Nuclear Issue
Sim Sung-tae, Sinchew-i

* India must revive work on cold fusion: scientist
The Hindu

* 'Bribe' fears over nuclear dump site
John Ross, The Scotsman

* Nuclear threat to Nigg's green future
John Ross, The Scotsman

* British Energy clinches debt deal
BBC News

* British Energy agrees rescue package
Financial Times

* British Energy agrees £1.3bn restructuring
London Times

* There's hope, but not as we know it
Richard Irving, London Times

* British Energy shares suspended
London Times

* Nuclear generator still faces administration
Angela Jameson, London Times

* State aid Ñ on a grand scale
Patience Wheatcroft, London Times

* Nuclear shipyard director held for uranium hoard
Nick Paton Walsh, Guardian

* Ukraine establishes main office responsible for Khmelnitsk and Rivno NPPs' completion
Bellona

* Severodvinsk lacks space for nuclear submarinesÕ construction
Bellona

* Looking the other way
Guardian

* Report: Weapons Hunter to Address Iraq Deception
Reuters

* Hussein's Weapons May Have Been Bluff
Walter Pincus and Dana Priest, Washington Post

* Doubt grows over prewar intelligence
Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor

* Read Fine Print of Bush Plan on Iraq Reconstruction
Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV)

* US paid $1m for 'useless intelligence' from Chalabi
Andrew Buncombe, The Independent

* UN Nuclear Experts Head to Iran Before Deadline
Louis Charbonneau, Reuters

* Iran Unlikely to Meet Nuclear Deadline
Paul Hughes, Reuters

* Iran Signals Nuclear Program Cooperation
Ali Akbar Dareini, Las Vegas SUN

* "Tougher nuke inspections first step to end of regime"
IranMania