[see yesterday's items]

* List of new documents Saturday from NRC PDR

Today's source articles

* Letter to Nevada State Bar from Nevada Congressional Members Re: DOE ethical problems concerning Winston and Strawn
U.S. Congress (pdf-400K)

* Last-minute glitches in Yucca nuclear-waste burial plan
Keay Davidson, San Francisco Chronicle

* Ruling by the State of Nevada Water Engineer on DOE's Application for Permanent Water Rights for the Yucca Mountain Project - issued November 7, 2003
State of Nevada (pdf-453k)

* Alert! NRC Issues Draft Statement to Weaken Environmental Justice Policy
Michael Mariotte, NIRS

* Energy billÕs future rests on Daschle
Jim Snyder, The Hill

* Energy bill awash in oil, but still leaves room to double ethanol
Kevin Diaz, Minneapolis Star Tribune

* Energy Tax Breaks Would Go to Industries
H. Josef Hebert, News Journal

* Changes Sought in U.S. Energy Bill
Tom Doggett And Chris Baltimore, Reuters

* Labs to go up for bid in 2005
Adam Foxman, Daily Bruin

* N-waste coming to or through Utah -- Contractor limiting options because it's in a rush, critics say
Donna Kemp Spangler, Deseret News

* Bennett sought to allow more waste in Utah
Judy Fahys, Salt Lake Tribune

* Letter: Make the desert pay
A. Cory Maloy, Salt Lake Tribune

* Letter: Why Utah?
Alex Wilding, Salt Lake Tribune

* Bennett Sought to Allow More Waste in Utah
KSL-TV

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

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

* Letter to Congressman Wamp from Glenn Bell; Re: Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Plan
NucNews

* Plant workers battle compensation issues
Van Rose, Pike County News Watchman

* Indian Point Power Plant Owner Says Protecting Fish Could Cost $ 1 Billion
Seafood

* Millstone 2 undergoes repairs to reactor vessel
WTNH

* Editorial: Too loose nukes?
Washington Times

* Buster & His Friends!
Mark Fiore (flash), MarkFiore

* Presidential survey on war, nukes
San Francisco Examiner

* NRC to Hold Public Meeting on Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 2 Application for License Renewal
NRC

* NRC Announces Opportunity for Hearing on Application for Renewal of Farley Operating License
NRC

* NRC Seeks Public Comment on Implementation of Reactor Oversight Process
NRC

* NRC Revises Rules Governing Conduct of Hearings
NRC

* NRC Meets with Leaders of Spanish Nuclear Safety Council
NRC

* NOTICES Meetings: Radiation and Worker Health Advisory Board, 64902 [03-28600]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

* China and Brazil sign nuclear deal
Interfax

* Former nuclear workers in French Polynesia undergo health checks
Radio Australia

* North Korea aims to strike nuclear deal with the US
The Independent

* US, South Korean defence chiefs tell Pyongyang to scrap nukes
Channel News Asia

* DPRK says prospect of nuclear issue depends on US attitude
China Daily

* NK Prepared Nukes Before Ink Dried on Agreement: Report
Kim Yeon-kwang, Chosun Ilbo

* Nuke Talks Likely to Be Held in Late December
Chung Woo-sang, Chosun Ilbo

* N. Korea seen softening stance to get rewards
Seo Hyun-jin, Korea Herald

* Editorial: Test of alliance
Korea Herald

* US considers its military position in Northeast Asia
Radio Australia

* The other sheriff
Marc Erikson, Asia Times

* Nuclear power plant could be operational by 2016
Asia Times

* The nuclear option - By Shafiq Ahmad
Hi Pakistan

* China's nuclear option
Dan Slater, Finance Asia

* Berlusconi's attempt to bury bad news about a nuclear waste dump provokes outrage in 'Italy's California'
Peter Popham, The Independent

* Protests over Italy's nuclear waste plans
Washington Times

* Anti-radiation pills for Highlanders
BBC News

* Radiation pills under review
BBC News

* British Energy restarts Sizewell nuclear plant
Reuters

* EU experts inspect Bulgarian reactors
Bulgarian News Network

* Prime Minister to protect Russian interests in Finland
Russia Journal

* Study: UES Is Country's Worst Polluter
Maria Danilova, Moscow Times

* Two strontium powered lighthouses vandalised on the Kola Peninsula
Igor Kudrik, Rashid Alimov, and Charles Digges, Bellona

* $16 million plan keeps Iraqi weapons experts from working abroad
USA Today

* No George McGovern
Robert Kagan, Washington Post

* Ivins: Bush administration flip-flops again: Now it's everybody out of Iraq
Molly Ivins, Salt Lake Tribune

* Iran 'honest' so far in nuclear deal
IRIB

* Sanctions against Iran unacceptable
IRIB

* U.S., Europe at odds over Iran's nuclear policy
Louis Charbonneau, Reuters

* Iran insists nuclear drive not grounds for UN action
SpaceDaily

* Israel to talk again to the BBC
Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post