[see yesterday's items]

* List of new documents today from NRC PDR

Today's source articles

* State bar might take up Yucca conflict -- Congressional delegation wants new look taken at DOE's hiring of law firm
Suzanne Struglinski, Las Vegas SUN

* NRC to review Yucca data during close-door meetings
Mary Manning, Las Vegas SUN

* Nevada again denies water rights for federal nuclear dump
Ken Ritter, Las Vegas SUN

* Yucca permit rejected again
Geoff Dornan, Nevada Appeal

* YMP issues top agenda
Mark Waite, Pahrump Valley Times

* Locals protest sludge
Mark Waite, Pahrump Valley Times

* Opposition to USA Patriot Act swells in Nevada
Ken Ritter, Las Vegas SUN

* Post-Cold War necessities
Washington Times

* House, Senate GOP Agree on Energy Bill
H. Josef Hebert, AP/Las Vegas SUN

* Energy Bill Glance
Las Vegas SUN

* UC plans shakeup for research labs
Andrea Widener, Contra Costa Times

* UC Berkeley scientist Helmholz dies
Meera Pal, Contra Costa Times

* Environment takes the stage -- N-waste, wilds dominate Walker news conference
Jerry Spangler, Deseret News

* Letter: Not just Bishop
Linda Kramer, Salt Lake Tribune

* Walker won't seek tax hikes
Rebecca Walsh, Salt Lake Tribune

* Hanford downwinders claims have fallen to 1,816
Annette Cary, Tri City Herald

* Bechtel could lay off 200 by Jan. 31
John Stang, Tri City Herald

* Uranium lawsuit goes back to U.S. district court
Casper Star-Tribune

* Lawmakers asking why on energy lab closure
Gary Harmon, Grand Junction Sentinel

* Sick worker plan still has problems
Paul Parson, Oak Ridger

* DOE: More funds needed to assist workers
Paul Parson, Oak Ridger

* Quake study to late to help with plant
Joe Walker, Paducah Sun

* NRC satisfied with progress on Browns Ferry Unit 1 reactor
Birmingham News

* Nuke plant off-line
Susan Morse, Hampton Union

* New Indian Pt. Cooling System: Years in the Making, and More to Come
Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times

* Groups challenge DEC action on Indian Point
Roger Witherspoon, NY Journal News

* NRC holds Peach Bottom meeting
Rebecca J. Ritzel, York Dispatch

* Temp workers carefully scrutinized
Sean Adkins, York Daily Record

* On drugs, and on the job
Sean Adkins, York Daily Record

* Letter: A Nuclear Distinction
Allan W. Cameron, Washington Post

* How first atom spy was uncovered
Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian

* Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham Statement on Energy Bill
DOE

* Congressional Budget Conferees Support President Bush's Clean Coal Initiative, FutureGen
DOE

* NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Surplus plutonium disposition; mixed oxide fuel assemblies fabrication in France, 64611-64614 [03-28506]
Energy Department

* NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building Replacement Project, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, 64620-64621 [03-28508]
National Nuclear Security Administration

* NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.: BWX Technologies, Inc., 64665-64668 [03-28499]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., 64668-64671 [03-28498]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc., 64662-64663 [03-28501]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Entergy Operations, Inc., 64664-64665 [03-28502]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: System Energy Resources, Inc., 64665 [03-28497]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* An energy source that's out of this world
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, Asia Times

* New particle turns up in Japan
Belle DumŽ, PhysicsWeb

* Nuclear power plants to go local
China Daily

* Dalian to grab "opportunity" to develop nuclear power
Interfax

* U.S., S. Korea to Prepare for Nuke Talks
Las Vegas SUN

* N. Korea's Ace in the Hole
Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times

* NK Willing to Attend Nuke Talks
Korea Times

* Nuclear defence seminar launched
Pune Newsline

* China-Pak nuke deal continues
Times of India

* Nuke programme: China a key provider to Pak
The Hindu

* Pak denies nuclear assistance to Iran
Sify

* Germany starts Nuclear Energy Phase-Out
Deutsche Welle

* Germany shuts first nuclear plant
BBC News

* Germany grows greener
Andreas Tzortzis, Christian Science Monitor

* MoD admits errors in Rosyth refit rejection
Bill Jacobs, The Scotsman

* Ten years too late
The Scotsman

* Costly shutdown for Sizewell B
Chris Starkie, Norfolk Eastern Daily Press

* Nuclear Waste: Matteoli, Site was Subject to a 2 Year Assessment
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

* Nuclear Waste: Apat, We Will Have a Decisive Role
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

* Kozlodui review
Sofia Echo

* EU experts to inspect Bulgarian reactors next Monday
Bulgarian News Network

* EURATOM research and training programme: call for proposals
Cordis News

* Sellafield workers to strike
Reuters

* Sellafield Workers Strike over Pay
Alan Jones, The Scotsman

* Sellafield to switch off
ITV

* Sellafield workers strike over pay
ITV

* Britain urged to ensure safety during Sellafield strike
Irish Examiner

* Strike at nuclear plant
UK Human Resources-Centre

* What a waste
UK LGIB

* US sees dollars in Russian nuclear technology
Nikola Krastev, Asia Times

* Poll Shows Americans' Views on Iraq War
Newsday

* 'We are at war for freedom'
Alec Russell And David Rennie, Daily Telegraph

* US stays blind to Iraqi casualties
Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe

* State Blasts IAEA on Iran's Nukes
Kenneth R. Timmerman, Insight

* Blix casts doubt over claims about energy program
Taiwan News

* Iran stresses transparency with IAEA
IRIB

* FM makes nuke confidence in Japan
IRIB

* Mussa blasts nuke claim against Iran
IRIB

* Iran vows "total transparency" on nuclear programme
Reuters

* Not just in Iran
The Guardian

* U.S., Europe split over response to Iranian nuclear program
Globe and Mail

* Egyptian calls for nuclear inspections in Israel
Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle

* DRC opposition sold Al-Qaeda uranium
IAfrica