[see yesterday's items]

Today's source articles

* Battle Over Yucca Mountain
KLAS

* Big stakes for lab to build battle laser
Ian Hoffman, Oakland Tribune

* Hanford workers unearth barrels of radioactive waste
Shannon Dininny, Casper Star-Tribune

* Waste storage needs open debate
Provo Daily Herald

* Letter: Envirocare's congressman
G. Kevin Watt, Salt Lake Tribune

* Radioactive element found in Rio Grande, study says
Susan Montoya Bryan, El Paso Times

* Groups claim LANL radioactivity entering Rio Grande
KOB-TV

* Cotter asks for ruling on soils
Dennis Bloomquist, Canon City Daily Record

* Agency change a hot topic
Matthew LeBlanc, Burlington Hawk Eye

* Cleanup of hot Graphite Reactor eyed
Frank Munger, Knoxville News Sentinel

* Oak Ridge Reactor to be Entombed
WBIR-TV

* SNS beam line pipeline popping
R. Cathey Daniels, Oak Ridger

* Environmental awards go to DOE contractors
R. Cathey Daniels, Oak Ridger

* Loss of older workers could impact high-tech industries
Oak Ridger

* ORNL, UT hosting 150 journalists, scientists
Oak Ridger

* Groups join forces to oppose food irradiator
NEPA News

* 'The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons;' New Volume from Hoover Institution Press
Business Wire

* Finalists Announced for the 5th Annual Platts Global Energy Awards
PRNewswire

* Cray's nuclear simulator to hit mass market
Matt Hines, ZDNet

* DOE's Teapot Dome Oil Field Takes Pioneering Role In Large-Scale CO2 Sequestration
DOE

* NRC Finds No Significant Environmental Impact from Proposed Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility at Diablo Canyon
NRC

* NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., 61235-61238 [03-27009]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Export and import license applications for nuclear facilities and materials: Energy Department, 61238 [03-27011]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Meetings: Source Term Modeling Peer Review Committee, 61238 [03-27010]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* Radioactive convoy
Alex Wilson, Australia Daily Telegraph

* Radioactive convoy goes through Sydney
Washington Times

* PM must apologise for nuclear evidence claim: Brown
Sydney Morning Herald

* Questions over aluminium tubes evidence in war case
Peta Donald, ABC

* Downer responds to tube claims
Linda Mottram, ABC

* Labor says Iraq shipment doubts were ignored
ABC

* Protests as Australia ships nuclear waste to France
TerraDaily

* Radiation leak 'could kill 400,000'
Japan Times

* Coaxing Iran, North Korea
W. Andy Knight, Japan Times

* U.S. Lawmakers Cancel Rare N. Korea Trip
Sang-Hun Choe, Las Vegas SUN

* North Korea planned to open atomic site
Paul Eckert, Reuters

* N.K. pursuing more practical line
Seo Hyun-jin, Korea Herald

* Talks on KEDO to Resume Next Month
Chosun Ilbo

* Asia-Pacific powers to cooperate in blocking WMD-related exports to NKorea
SpaceDaily

* N-plant may face costly shut-down
David Green, East Anglian Daily Times

* Call for National Nuclear Sub Policy
Western Morning News

* BNFL steels for possible strike at nuclear site
Peter Marsh, Financial Times

* BNFL staff vote for industrial action
Reuters

* Sellafield staff vote for strike
BBC News

* Cold, wet monument to some strange war ideas
Martin Shipton, Western Mail

* British veterans' campaign on Gulf War illness dampened for lack of evidence: report
Xinhua News

* France 'to aim nuclear arms at rogue states'
Philip Delves Broughton, Daily Telegraph

* Isomer wars
Radio Nederland

* Union of Russia and Belarus won't change Belarus's nuclear-free status - Lukashenko
Interfax

* Russia allocated $4.2m to raise K-159
Bellona

* First stage of reconstruction completed at Andreeva bay nuclear facility
Bellona

* Weapon hunters dismiss Powell's WMD claim
David Rennie, Chicago Sun Times

* One, Two, Many Hiroshimas
Paul Craig Roberts, LewRockwell

* US warfare equation 'full of baloney'
David Isenberg, Asia Times

* A costly blunder
Anwar Kemal, Hi Pakistan

* For Bush, it's good guys vs bad
Taipei Times

* Row over US General's comments on Iraq nuclear weapons
Nick Grimm, ABC

* Iraqi aluminium shipment 'intercepted in Aust'
ABC

* Aust role in Iraq nuke hunt revealed
The Australian

* ASIS key to 'evidence' for Iraq's nuclear plans
Sydney Morning Herald

* Iran 'Studying' Uranium Enrichment Halt
Ali Akbar Dareini, Las Vegas SUN

* EU Officials to Pressure Iran on Nukes
Constant Brand, Las Vegas SUN

* Keeping Tehran honest
Charles Recknagel, San Francisco Chronicle

* Dubious promises from Iran
Washington Times

* EU issues deadline warning to Iran
Irish Examiner

* UN nuclear watchdog chief briefs EU ministers on Iran deal
EU Business

* "IranÕs report to IAEA not deficient": Salehi
IranMania

* FM, IAEA chief brief parliament
Irib

* UN nuclear watchdog chief briefs EU ministers on Iran deal
SpaceDaily

* SA nuke plant is a hit with US power giant
Business Day