[see yesterday's items]

* List of new documents today from NRC PDR

Today's source articles

* Yucca Mountain Update - Volume 1 Issue 17 ~ October 30, 2003
State of Nevada

* Military officials lobby in letter -- Air Force chiefs fear Yucca Mountain plan will limit Nellis training
Steve Tetreault, Las Vegas Review-Journal

* Change in Yucca funding up for approval
Reno Gazette-Journal

* Bill would mean $725 million in Yucca funding
KRNV

* Plan would hike Yucca funding -- Ill. lawmakers seek guarantee
Suzanne Struglinski, Las Vegas SUN

* Air Force wary of Yucca's impact
Suzanne Struglinski, Las Vegas SUN

* Air Force: Shipping nuke waste to Nevada dump could hurt Nellis
Las Vegas SUN

* Editorial: Another end-around
Las Vegas SUN

* UC prepares to bid for Livermore
Ian Hoffman, Tri-Valley Herald

* One last salute to Edward Teller
Ian Hoffman, Tri-Valley Herald

* Nuclear physicist A. Carl Helmholz, former physics chair, has died
Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley

* Bishop may reconsider Ohio tailings; blasts ''liberal media''
Casper Star-Tribune

* Bishop weighing nuke stand
Dan Harrie, Salt Lake Tribune

* Letter: WMD in Utah
Tamaris and Floyd Jensen, Salt Lake Tribune

* Letter: Utahns on the fringe
Jason Groenewold, Salt Lake Tribune

* Director named for Radiation Control division
Salt Lake Tribune

* Davis Beat(#1): Bishop agrees to re-evaluate stance
Davis County Clipper

* Radioactive device taken from truck
Andy Dworkin, Oregonian

* Funding secured for INEEL reactor
Steven Friederich, Idaho State Journal

* WIPP waste reclassification left out of energy bill
KOB-TV

* New group organized to fight uranium fuel factory near Eunice
KOB-TV

* High-Level Radioactive Sludge Won't Be Coming To N.M.
KRQE

* Packaging firm to set up in Carlsbad
Victoria Parker-Stevens, Carlsbad Current Argus

* Carlsbad firm signs $1.3M deal with WIPP
Dennis Domrzalski, New Mexico Business Weekly

* Contamination untested in chapters
Kathy Helms-Hughes, Gallup Independent

* Water, soil tested in Church Rock
Kathy Helms-Hughes, Gallup Independent

* Dying for help
Jonathan Riskind, Columbus Dispatch

* DOE efforts to redevelop sites nets EPA's top honor
Frank Munger, Knoxville News Sentinel

* ORNL anticipates voluntary job cuts
Paul Parson, Oak Ridger

* Report states DOE on track with environmental regulations FEATURED ADVERTISER:
Paul Parson, Oak Ridger

* Oak Ridge officials get award for K-25 efforts
Paul Parson, Oak Ridger

* AEP seeks Cook license renewal
Rick Martinez, South Bend Tribune

* Groups to petition against VY uprate
Toby Henry, Brattleboro Reformer

* Abraham Seeking Energy Bill This Year
H. Josef Hebert, AP/Las Vegas SUN

* As Earth Warms, the Hottest Issue Is Energy
Kenneth Chang, New York Times

* Curbing Nuclear Proliferation -- An Interview with Mohamed ElBaradei
Arms Control Today

* Atomic Agency Chief Urges Global Controls on Nuclear Fuel
Kirk Semple, New York Times

* Resist the official pol-speak of Bush's 'war on terror'
Simon Tisdall, The Guardian

* Chamber of Secrets -- 'Critical Assembly': Art's Crucial Encounter With the Bomb's Birth
Blake Gopnik, Washington Post

* NRC Renews License for Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant for an Additional 20 Years
NRC

* NRC Issues Direct Final Rule Modifying Requirements for Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning Trust Funds
NRC

* NRC Denies Rulemaking Petition by Ohio Citizens Group
NRC

* NRC/PSEG Meeting on Hope Creek Is Rescheduled
NRC

* NRC Announces the Availability of License Renewal Application for D.C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Units 1 &2
NRC

* NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 62483 [03-27799]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* IAEA wants UN control over radioactive material
Pakistan Daily Times

* Alberta energy minister frets over concept of nuclear-powered oilsands plants
Bill Graveland, CBC News

* Urgent grab for N-site land `unfair'
Catherine Hockley, The Advertiser

* Mutton's nuclear facts 'false'
Kathy Stone, Dubbo Daily Liberal

* Perhaps the US Embassy should investigate this!
Gill Jackson, Scoop

* N. Korean Reactor Project May End
Glenn Kessler, Washington Post

* N Korea nuclear plant reviewed
BBC News

* SKorea pushes for early nuclear talks, NKorea urges simultaneous actions
Channel News Asia

* 2nd Round of Nuke Talks Likely Before Year-End
Scoop

* Top N Korean defector gives U.S. nuke info: paper
Japan Today

* NK nuke reactors verdict delayed
CNN

* International consortium may end DPRK nuclear reactor project: paper
Xinhua News

* KEDO decides to halt reactor construction
Japan Today

* Power unit at Ignalina nuclear plant stopped for maintenance
Interfax

* German firms may build nuclear stations
Expatica

* The warrior who fell -- Runar Forseth (1962 - 2003)
Bellona

* Nuclear waste storehouse to be built in Murmansk region
Russia Journal

* Russian enriched uranium "works for" the USA
Pravda

* Russia seen as major supplier of nuclear fuel to USA
Gateway 2 Russia

* Congress Sends Bush $87.5B Iraq Package
Alan Fram, Las Vegas SUN

* Senate Remarks: "A High Price for a Hollow Victory"
Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV)

* Public Interest Groups Call on Government to Stop Hiding Critical Information about Iraq Contracts
Public Citizen

* Iraq and Peace in The World
Europa (pdf-3.6M)

* ElBaradei: "Iran's nuclear case still under study"
IranMania

* US warns Iran not to retreat from nuclear promise
Xinhua News

* Khamenei: Iran nuke cooperation has limits
Xinhua News

* Nuclear Worries In Iran
Salman Haidar, Sinchew-i

* Iran at the Nuclear Threshold
Brenda Shaffer, Arms Control Today

* Convenient Concession -- Looking beyond the nuke pact.
Jon Levin, National Review

* Safe landing
Mostafa Al-Labbad, Al-Ahram

* IAEA finds new nuclear safeguard breaches in Iran
SpaceDaily

* Sharon Departs Moscow With Only Sympathy
Steve Weizman, The Guardian