[see yesterday's items]

* List of new documents today from NRC PDR

Today's source articles

* Activists want to stop herbicide permits
Thomas Barlas, Press of Atlantic City (NJ)
In 1996, as part of an estuary enhancement program to help offset fish deaths at Salem, PSE&G began spraying part of the Delaware Bay shoreline with a herbicide. The company says that the herbicide, which contains the chemical glyphosate, disappears from the environment within hours and causes no lasting harm. The New Jersey Environmental Federation, an NGO, has asked state officials to stop issuing herbicide permits for the program. The group also wants to force the utility to put scientists critical of the spraying practice on the project's advisory panel.

* New Discord Rises Between US and Allies
Los Angeles Times (subscription required)
Bush administration officials say the IAEA has documented that for about 18 years, Iran did not comply with requirements governing civilian nuclear power.

* Pork to the 435th power
Baltimore Sun (MD)
The energy bill provides tax help to already profitable producers of oil, gas, coal and nuclear power.

* House OKs sweeping energy bill
Baltimore Sun (MD)

* Panel sets goals for generating renewable energy; Alternate sources would provide 20% of N.J. electricity by 2020
Lawrence Hajna, Cherry Hill Courier Post (NJ)
The state of New Jersey has established a rebate program covering 70 percent of homeowners' costs to put up solar photovoltaic panels. The state's Clean Energy office receives an average of 40 applications a month for this program. The cost of installing a typical system for a small home can range from $10,000 to about $22,000.

* Legislators want independent review of air quality agency
AP/Casper Star Tribune (WY)
This is actually an article about waste. Some locals say that Utah has become the bargain basement dumping ground. Envirocare announced Tuesday it would drop its application to receive uranium tailings from DOE cleanup in Fernald, Ohio. Separately, Envirocare, continues to want to expand its business by disposing of so-called Class B and C radioactive wastes The plan has been approved by state regulators; yet to be obtained is the required approvals by legislature and governor.

* Details differ for utilities - but rate hikes look the same
St. Petersburg Times (FL)
The rising price for electricity reflects the underlying higher costs of the four fuels used in Florida -- oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear power.

* Partisan Power Loss
Mother Jones (CA)
Carter continued to support nuclear power, although new reactor orders dried up, then stopped altogether after the Three Mile Island crisis in 1979. ...

* US-Canada blackout report to be released Wednesday
Forbes
The outage caused utilities to shut down over 100 power plants -- about 62,000 megawatts of capacity -- including 22 of the nation's 103 nuclear power plants.

* Senate may slow US energy bill but not stop it
Forbes

* Fueling controversy
Wichita Eagle (KS)
The $32 billion energy bill, more than two years in the making, is an 800-page document that touches every energy-related topic ...

* Inland Southern California
Press-Enterprise (CA)
Temecula, Calif, City Councilman Sam Pratt lost his first election this month since the Council was formed in 1989. Mr. Pratt, a retired engineer, at one time proposed construction of a nuclear plant alongside Lake Elsinore.

* UES to disclose the deal amount to buy Georgian energy assets in ...
Gateway 2 Russia
A UES company bought from AES a number of Georgian energy assets, including 75% interest in Telasi NPP and 100% of Mtkvari NPP.

* Iran to reject more IAEA demands on ending enrichment: official
Xinhua
EU is pressing for Iran to totally stop enrichment in return for guarantees of overseas nuclear fuel supply for Iran's nuclear plant.

* Grim results expected from Tooth Fairy Project
Pottstown Mercury (PA)

* Iran's Nuclear Two-Step
Frontpagemag.com

* Indian Engineer arrested supplying blueprints for N Korean ...
Times Pakistan
Indian Engineer, Sitaraman Ravi Mahedevan on charges of illegally exporting blueprints for valves being used in construction of a North Korean n-plant

* Millstone Unit 2 reactor vessel being repaired
New Haven Register (CT)

* Austria protests Czech plans to expand controversial nuclear...
SpaceDaily
Austrian government said Tuesday it was to protest plans by the Czech Republic to expand a controversial NPP

* Fortum presses ahead with controversial stake in Finnish nuclear...
SpaceDaily
Fortum, Finland's state-controlled energy group, on Tuesday went ahead with a controversial decision to take a 25-percent stake in a new nuclear reactor