[see yesterday's items]

Today's source articles

* Deal opens door for Reid aide to get NRC nomination
Las Vegas SUN

* List: State should negotiate on Yucca
Adella Harding, Elko Daily Free Press

* Former Governor Says Yucca Mountain Project Inevitable
KLAS

* Art designs for Yucca Mountain warnings to be displayed at UCLA
Ken Ritter, Las Vegas SUN

* Art designs for Yucca Mountain warnings to be displayed at UCLA
Reno Gazette Journal

* Is waste company behind on fees?
Judy Fahys, Salt Lake Tribune

* Shipments from lab suspended
Victoria Parker Stevens, Carlsbad Current Argus

* Fernald clean-up change proposed
Dan Klepal, Cincinnati Enquirer

* Dept. of Energy agreement saves jobs at uranium plant
Malia Rulon, Cincinnati Enquirer

* USEC, Lawmakers, DOE Reach Initial Agreement To Retain 116 Jobs; Funding Secured for USEC Workers at Ohio Plant
Business Wire

* Governemnt Looks To Stop Treating Groundwater
ONN

* Outside funding at OR up 25%
Frank Munger, Knoxville News Sentinel

* Congress group to address cancer isotope contract
R. Cathey Daniels, Oak Ridger

* Nuclear whistleblowers loss of protection feared
Joe Walker, Paducah Sun

* Report: Nuclear project won't hurt residents
Duncan Mansfield, The Tennessean

* NRC: ÔNo Significant ImpactÕ Expected From NFSÕs Planned Uranium Facility In Erwin
Bill Jones, Greeneville Sun

* Over 100 jobs to be saved in Piketon
Daniel Prazer, Chillicothe Gazette

* USEC, Lawmakers, DOE Reach Initial Agreement To Retain 116 Jobs; Funding Secured for USEC Workers at Ohio Plant
Business Wire

* TVA debt reduction plan is `step in right direction,' OMB
Birmingham News

* TMI neighbors seek meeting
Toledo Blade

* Progress Energy to expand storage capacity for its fuel rods
Wilmington Morning Star

* FPL nuclear reactors' licenses extended
Rafael Gerena-Morales, Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel

* Coronet Says Tests Don't Back Accusation
Dave Nicholson, Tampa Tribune

* Vt. must pay for nuclear waste site
David Mace, Rutland Herald

* Vermont lawmakers seek to re-negotiate Texas nuclear waste deal
Fort Worth Star Telegram

* Entergy hopes to lower radiation standards at Vermont Yankee
Barre Montpelier Times Argus

* Commercial reactor to produce both electricity and bomb material
Duncan Mansfield, Tuscaloosa News

* Crystal River nuclear plant begins temporary shutdown
Bay News

* Power plant worries residents
Capital News

* Measure Would Alter Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post

* White House must end push for new nukes
Florida Today

* The Last Wall
Mikhail Gorbachev, Washington Post

* Energy bill insert could relax limits on uranium trade
R. Jeffrey Smith, Houston Chronicle

* Ultra-Clean Transportation Fuels Plant Is Step Toward Reduced Vehicle Emissions
DOE

* NRC Renews License for St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant for an Additional 20 Years
NRC

* NRC's Environmental Assessment Finds No Significant Impact from Proposed Bleu Project Preparation Facility
NRC

* NRC Approves Power Uprate for Palo Verde Unit 2
NRC

* Nuke link to tumour jump
Simon Bevilacqua, Hobart Mercury

* N. Korea's nuke claims discounted
Seattle Times

* N. Korean Report Spurs Debate on Credibility
Anthony Faiola, Washington Post

* Talks on N Korea could be a good sign
Melody Chen, Taipei Times

* N-programme a result of US hostility: Korea
India Economic Times

* Japan, China, ROK to fight proliferation of WMD
Daily Yomiuri

* Expert condemns ÔscaryÕ plans for nuclear sub storage
Alan Crawford, Sunday Herald

* Harwell shares decommissioning experience on the international stage
UKAEA

* Dounreay move from Sizewell
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press

* Russia to take nuclear waste
B92

* Theories Abound for Failure to Find WMD
John J. Lumpkin, Las Vegas SUN

* The Elusive Iraqi Weapons
New York Times

* What Inspectors Saw, and Didn't See
New York Times

* This Wasn't the First War Fought by Spies and Hawks
James Risen, New York Times

* No chemical, nuclear arms found in Iraq
Bob Drogin and Greg Miller, Seattle Times

* Bush optimistic on Iraq arms
Ron Hutcheson and James Kuhnhenn, Philadelphia Inquirer

* Cheney makes the case for Bush agenda
Nancy Petersen, Philadelphia Inquirer

* Editorial: Kay's report/No WMD, no case for war
Minneapolis Star Tribune

* So, What Went Wrong?
Michael Elliott, TIME

* Wanna Buy a Bridge?
Colbert I. King, Washington Post

* Transcript: Washington Post Reporters Interview Powell
Glenn Kessler and Peter Slevin, Washington Post

* Botulinum 'is WMD'
WorldNetDaily

* Beware of the dog
James Gordon Prather, WorldNetDaily

* Remarks by Vice President Cheney at a Luncheon for Congressman Jim Gerlach
PRNewswire

* We report, you get it wrong
Jim Lobe, Asia Times

* WMD: 'You have got to be kidding
Nir Rosen, Asia Times

* Weapons report vindicates war: Bush
John Shovelan, ABC

* WMDs moved abroad, says Kay
News Limited

* Chasing the mirage
Nancy Gibbs And Michael Ware, Daily Telegraph

* In wake of WMD report, Bush struggles to convince public he was right to go to war
Julian Borger, The Guardian

* Bush: Iraq War Justified Despite No WMD
John J. Lumpkin, The Guardian

* A land ruled by chaos
The Guardian

* Blix warns inspectors on dangers of spin
Anne Penketh, The Independent

* No uranium, no munitions, no missiles, no programmes
The Independent

* Both sides try to claim WMD victory
Gethin Chamberlain, The Scotsman

* Bush interprets Kay report as vindication of Iraq war
NDTV

* Bush fires back after Iraq report
Sify

* UN agency awaitUS report on Iraqi weapons
Arabic News

* Gulf War II Syndrome? Military Equipment and "Pneumonia"
Stan Goff, Coastal Post

* UN, Iran form plan to show nuclear program peaceful
Jerusalem Post

* Iran conditions snap nuclear inspections
Arab Times

* Rafsanjani sets terms for nuclear inspections
Lebanon Daily Star

* Iran 'optimistic' after nuclear talks
Jim Muir, BBC News

* Iran, IAEA talks positive
IRIB

* Iran will conditionally agree to sign nuclear protocol: minister
ABC