[see yesterday's items]

* List of new documents today from NRC PDR

* Cook to Switch to Framatome 15x15 HTP Fuel with M5 Cladding

Today's source articles

* Abraham confident department will make Yucca deadline
Suzanne Struglinski, Las Vegas SUN

* Abraham says Nevada nuke dump permit application will be on time
Las Vegas SUN

* Fighting for their health
Jane White, Beatrice Daily Sun

* Envirocare May Get New Shipments Of Radioactive Waste
KSL-TV

* Second Enron snub sends city to court
Kristina Brenneman, Portland Tribune

* Agencies gather after radioactive waste found at dump
KTVB

* Grassley to testify for claims switch
Matthew LeBlanc, Burlington Hawk Eye

* Fusion a top priority at Energy Department
UPI/Washington Times

* America's Ministry of Propaganda Exposed -- Part One
Gar Smith, Earth Island Institute

* Negative Energy
John Podesta, TomPaine

* AFP 'may seek Brigitte's return'
News Limited

* Cost of operating nuclear reprocessing plant seen at 19 trillion yen
Japan Times

* More nuke talks set for December
EastDay

* DPRK demands US compensation for suspension of reactor construction
Xinhua News

* Editorial: Dealing with nuclear North
Korea Herald

* Kazakhstan: Atyrau former nuclear testing site still a health hazard
IRIN

* BAE System's Dirty Dealings
Sasha Lilley, du CorpWatch

* Anger over suspended Green whistleblower
Matthew Tempest, The Guardian

* France releases white paper on future energy development
Doris Leblond, Oil & Gas Journal

* Probe launched into malfunction at South Russia nuclear plant
Gateway 2 Russia

* Nuclear power station shut down in Russia after breakdown
SpaceDaily

* IAEA Says Iran Produced Plutonium
George Jahn, Las Vegas SUN

* Iran's Nuclear Disclosures Undermine U.S.
George Jahn, Las Vegas SUN

* DOE secretary upbeat about Yucca Mountain deadline
Steve Tetreault, Las Vegas Review-Journal

* Scientists find cat litter ingredient could help absorb nuclear waste
Reno Gazette-Journal

* Reid stages talkathon on Senate floor to protest GOP leadership
Steve Tetreault, Las Vegas Review-Journal

* Aid center for nuclear workers -- A place for sick people to get help on benefits
Edward Epstein, San Francisco Chronicle

* Ailing nuclear workers to get claim center
Eric Louie, Contra Costa Times

* Ill nuke workers may get center
Ian Hoffman, Tri-Valley Herald

* San Onofre waits for OK to move nuclear reactor vessel
Paul Sisson, North County Times

* Nuclear Lab Facelift
Popular Mechanics

* Chance of hotter waste is rising
Donna Kemp Spangler, Deseret News

* Bill reclassifies radioactive waste
N.S. Nokkentved, Provo Daily Herald

* Skids greased for Utah waste
Judy Fahys, Salt Lake Tribune

* Letter: Enough of Envirocare
Steve Russell, Salt Lake Tribune

* U.S. Bills Would Re-Classify Nuclear Waste
KSL-TV

* PNNL to pursue planned DOE facility
Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald

* Idaho workers get $2.2 million in health compensation
KTVB

* Energy Department touts nuclear as Idaho's future
Jennifer Sandmann, Magic Valley Times-News

* INEEL: Pit 9 test retrieval will begin in December
Jennifer Sandmann, Magic Valley Times-News

* A tower totters -- Flats won't be pristine, but cleaner Ñ sooner
Boulder Daily Camera

* More big projects in store at ORNL
Richard Powelson, Knoxville News Sentinel

* Release of tainted water ordered
Kaitlin Gurney, Philadelphia Inquirer

* Nuclear waste testing this week at Pease
Larissa Mulkern, Portsmouth Herald

* Delay on Energy Bill Vote Threatens Adjournment Plan
Carl Hulse, New York Times

* MinnesotaÕs Excelsior Energy to Receive $800 Million Loan Guarantee in Energy Bill
Public Citizen

* US backs nuclear fusion over particle smashing
New Scientist

* Enola Gay Exhibit Won't Be Changed
Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post

* Health officials to share results of cancer study
Evan Brandt, Pottstown Mercury

* Using Baby Teeth as a Geiger Counter
Andy Newman, New York Times

* Desert Storm-era vet: Disservice done to syndrome victims
John Hoff, Grand Forks Herald

* Fed Govt ditches dump PR plan
ABC

* Bomb recipe 'in Brigitte flat'
Alain Acco and Martin Chulov, News Limited

* Warning of Lucas Heights attack
News Limited

* Lucas Heights security 'adequate'
News Limited

* Nuclear waste reprocessing cost estimated at Y18.9 tril
Japan Today

* Details Are Up to Korea: Rumsfeld
Korea Times

* Kanupp to go operational from January
Hi Pakistan

* Protests as nuclear waste shipment heads to German dump
SpaceDaily

* Vote may end dispute over site of energy research centre
Raphael Minder, Financial Times

* BAE System's Dirty Dealings
Sasha Lilley, CorpWatch

* Five new investors interested in privatisation of SE power utility
Beata Balogov‡, Slovak Spectator

* Ignalina nuclear plant ups electrical output 12% in Jan-Oct
Interfax

* Consultation on charges for regulated activities
UK Environment-Centre

* Italy allocating 360m euros for Russian nuclear submarines' dismantling
Bellona

* Bellona: Soviet Stances Persist
Irina Titova, St Petersburg Times

* CheneyÕs Long Path to War
Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas, Newsweek

* Missing Evidence in Iraq
Jean C. Willis, Washington Post

* Iran Cleared by U.N. of Atomic Ambitions
George Jahn, Las Vegas SUN

* Iran Failed to Disclose Its Atomic Steps, Agency Says
Douglas Frantz, Los Angeles Times

* Tehran hid truth on enrichment: nuclear watchdog
Douglas Frantz, Sydney Morning Herald

* Mossad Involved In Leaks On Israel's Plan To Attack Iranian Nuclear Plants
Asaad Telhami, Dar al Hayat

* 200 nukes reported at desert site; IsraelÕs nuclear ambiguity could spur arms race
Arab Times

* IAEA Says Iran Produced Plutonium
George Jahn, Bismarck Tribune (ND)

* Agency: Iran produced plutonium, but 'no evidence' of nuclear ...
AP/WAVY-TV (VA)

* IAEA finds 'no evidence' of nuclear arms program in Iran
AP/USA Today

* Report finds 'no evidence' of Iranian atomic arms bid
Charleston Post Courier (SC)

* Iran not trying to develop nuke: IAEA
Irib (Iran)

* Agency: Iran produced plutonium, but 'no evidence' of nuclear ...
AP/KFVS (MO)

* China Expects N. Korea Nuclear Talks May Resume Soon
Voice of America

* Feds Concerned About Dirty Bombs
AP/Hampton Roads Daily Press (VA)

* Feds Document Lost Radioactive Material
The Ledger (FL)

* Feds fear lost radioactive material could be used
The Desert Sun (CA)

* Clinton Calls on US, China to Trade
AP/Atlanta Journal Constitution (GA)

* Powell: Iran Feeling Democratic Pressure
Kansas City Star (MO) - (subscription required)

* Center planned for Bay Area weapons researchers who are ill
San Jose Mercury News (CA)

* From The Economist Global Agenda
Economist (UK) (subscription required)

* Anger over suspended Green whistleblower
Matthew Tempest, Guardian (UK)