[see yesterday's items]

* List of new documents today from NRC PDR

Today's source articles

* Reid Successful in Cutting Yucca Budget
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)

* Information Alert: New Survey Shows Strong Yucca Mountain Opposition
State of Nevada

* Editor's Note: The good fight continues
Geoff Schumacher, Las Vegas Mercury

* Cowtown Chronicles
Las Vegas Mercury

* Quick and Dirty(#2): Yucca yack
Las Vegas Mercury

* Congress settles on budget for Yucca Mountain -- Figure $11 million less than Bush requested
Steve Tetreault, Las Vegas Review-Journal

* Negotiators OK funds for test site
Tony Batt, Las Vegas Review-Journal

* Congress slashes Bush nuke arms budget
James Sterngold, San Francisco Chronicle

* Agreement to Fund Nuclear Weapons Research Is OKd
Nick Anderson, Los Angeles Times

* House-Senate bargainers cut funds for small nuclear weapons
Alan Fram, Las Vegas SUN

* $180 million OK'd for projects in Nevada
Suzanne Struglinski, Las Vegas SUN

* House, Senate Republicans Clear Sticking Point on Energy Bill
Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times

* Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Oversight on the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program -- Full Committee Hearing
US Senate

* Sick worker program to stay at Energy Department
WQAD

* EPA: Superfund Cleanup Finishes Decline
John Heilprin, AP/Las Vegas SUN

* Glance at Cleaned-Up Superfund Sites
Las Vegas SUN

* Editorial: San Francisco up for grabs
Willie Ratcliff, San Francisco Bay View

* UC may vie to manage lab
Adam Foxman, Daily Bruin

* 'Hot' waste targeted -- Lawmaker aims to bar material from Utah sites
Donna Kemp Spangler, Deseret News

* Regulations could allow waste here
N.S. Nokkentved, Provo Daily Herald

* Legislator seeks control over Utah-bound tailings
Judy Fahys, Salt Lake Tribune

* Mullen: N-waste escapes Rep. Bishop's list of 'simple things'
Holly Mullen, Salt Lake Tribune

* Take concerns seriously
Kay Ramsley, Salt Lake Tribune

* Lockheed Martin trial concludes with conjecture - Judge's decision is months away
Steven Friederich, Idaho State Journal

* At environmental sites, Knox firms may clean up
Rebecca Ferrar, Knoxville News Sentinel

* TVA board OKs $1.5B power deal
Karin Miller, Knoxville News Sentinel

* Y-12 plant's manager takes on mentor role
Paul Parson, Oak Ridger

* TVA approves $1.5 billion deal
Oak Ridger

* Agency sued over cleanup at nuclear plant
James Malone, Louisville Courier Journal

* Plant and dams have a proposal of $275 million
Paducah Sun

* Brakes sought on FirstEnergy rate case
John Funk, Cleveland Plain Dealer

* Nuclear plant online after 32-day outage
St. Petersburg Times

* Remark inspires a chain reaction
Jennifer Liberto and Amy Wimmer Schwarb, St. Petersburg Times

* $20 million deal on Yankee uprate OKÕd
Susan Smallheer, Rutland Herald

* State backs Yankee power boost
Toby Henry, Brattleboro Reformer

* Local officials appealing FEMA approval of Indian Point evacuation plans
Jim Fitzgerald, Newsday

* Enola Gay Draws More Flak -- Petitioners Want Atom Bomb Deaths Added to Exhibit
Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post

* Report IG-0625: Inspection Report on "Reporting of Security Incidents at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory" (pdf-1.62M)
DOE

* Energy Department Implements New "E-Filing" System for Natural Gas Imports and Exports
DOE

* Project Update: Development of "Risk-Based" Approaches for Disposition of Transuranic and High-Level Radioactive Waste
NAS

* NRC Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste to Hold November Meeting in Las Vegas
NRC

* Proposed Rule To Amend 10 CFR Part 2, Subpart J, in Regard to The Licensing Support Network
NRC (pdf-31K)

* Staff Requirements - SECY-03-0180 - Proposed Rule to Amend 10 CFR Part 2, Subpart J, in Regard to The Licensing Support Network
NRC (pdf-105K)

* Licensing Proceeding for the Receipt of High-Level Radioactive Waste at a Geologic Repository: Licensing Support Network, Submissions to the Electronic Docket
NRC (pdf-7K)

* NOTICES Meetings: Capabilities for Domestic Response to Terrorist Attacks Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction Advisory Panel, 62777 [03-27937]
Defense Department

* NOTICES Regulatory guides; issuance, availability, and withdrawal, 62838 [03-27944]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co., 62837-62838 [03-27943]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES National Toxicology Program: Carcinogens Report, Eleventh EditionÑ Agents, substances, mixtures, and exposure circumstances for listing or delisting, 62825-62827 [03-27892]
Public Health Service

* U.S. Warns Global Nuclear Safeguards Under Threat
Evelyn Leopold, Reuters

* WNA News Briefing Update
WNA

* Liberals scrap plan to privatize nuclear inspections
Toronto Star

* Johnston Atoll: The End of an Era
Gregg K. Kakesako, Honolulu Star-Bulletin

* N. Korea to Seize Equipment From Reactors
Sang-Hun Choe, Las Vegas SUN

* 'N-project halt to have little effect'
Daily Yomiuri

* N.Korea Says Reactor Freeze Makes It Doubt U.S.
Reuters

* Report: North Korea says it will block U.S. transfer of nuclear equipment
CBC News

* N.Korea envoy says has nuclear deterrent
Katherine Baldwin, Reuters

* Editorial: Doomed Reactor Project
Korea Herald

* Shouldn't bar nuke tech for peace: India
Dharam Shourie, Rediff

* Pakistan denies nuclear reports
BBC News

* Nation to get 8 more nuclear power plants
Times of India

* India's heavy water reactors rated best plants
Sify

* Power reactors of future will run on water: Prof Kaw
Sify

* Warning over nuclear subs
John Ross, The Scotsman

* Strike Cannot Be Avoided
Alan Irving, Whitehaven News

* We Must Make Most of This Opportunity, MP
Whitehaven News

* Now Nuclear Group Councillors are in Korea
David Siddall, Whitehaven News

* Electric Blackout in Italy: Is The Nuclear Phase Out Responsible?
Paolo Fornaciari, Energy Pulse

* Uranium mining nears end
Jason Hovet, Prague Post

* Australian Aborigines to join nuclear protest in Germany
SpaceDaily

* Russian nuclear project in Iran violates no international rules - minister
Gateway 2 Russia

* Russia to be quizzed over nuclear aid to Iran
EUobserver

* Pipes' Line: Is America overly aggressive?
Daniel Pipes, Asia Times

* Saudi Arabia's nuclear gambit
Stephen Blank, Asia Times

* Legal case for Iraq war opened for public debate
Donald MacLeod, The Guardian

* Rohani to meet IAEA chief Saturday
IRIB

* Iran Hands Over Key Drawings to UN Nuclear Agency
Louis Charbonneau, Reuters