[see yesterday's items]

* List of new documents today from NRC PDR

Today's source articles

* Nevada lawmaker criticizes Bush for rushing nuclear project
Christina Almeida, Las Vegas SUN

* Grand jury seeks D-B records
M.R. Kropko, Fremont News Messenger

* FirstEnergy focuses on startup -- NRC meets with utility Dec. 3
Rick Neale, Port Clinton News Herald

* Power crisis helped public save energy
Japan Times

* Late deal to salvage nuclear crisis talks
Sydney Morning Herald

* US to construct nuclear plant in W Asia
Deepika

* Business View: Labour bites bullet on nuclear waste. Now it has to come clean on the cost
Jason NissŽ, The Independent

* Radioactive Waste: Rome Rejects Deposit in Casaccia
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

* Radioactive Waste: Gasparri, Choices are Often Unpopular
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

* Nuclear Waste. Calabrese Mayors, Protest will Continue
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

* Reid Announces Opposition to Energy Bill
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)

* Ensign opposes, keeps energy bill alive
Samantha Young, Las Vegas Review-Journal

* Energy bill on the ropes
William Neikirk, Chicago Tribune

* 11th-Hour Bills Irk Lawmakers Left in the Dark
David Firestone, New York Times

* Senate Energy Bill Is Blocked -- GOP Thwarted in Getting Floor Vote
Dan Morgan, Washington Post

* 2 Bills Would Benefit Top Bush Fundraisers
Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post

* GOP brass can't pass pork-filled energy bill
Zachary Coile, San Francisco Chronicle

* Energy bill sputters, but two sides vow to fight on
Charles Pope, Seattle Post Intelligencer

* Energy Bill: Divisive energy overhaul stymied
Sumana Chatterjee, St. Paul Pioneer Press

* Senate blocks energy proposal
Stephen Koff, Cleveland Plain Dealer

* Statement by Jill Lancelot, President of Taxpayers For Common Sense on the Energy Bill
U.S. Newswire

* Still waiting for the bon voyage
Paul Sisson, North County Times

* Alliance in Utah aims to get vocal
Dennis Romboy, Deseret News

* Letter: Words vs. actions
Brandon Gorrell, Salt Lake Tribune

* Grassley continues pushing claims switch
Matthew LeBlanc, Burlington Hawk Eye

* U.S. grand jury examining reports from Davis-Besse
John Mangels and Stephen Koff, Cleveland Plain Dealer

* Eco-group wants FirstEnergy CEO to quit
Bob Downing, Akron Beacon Journal

* Senators scold DOE for not compensating ill workers quicker
Nancy Zuckerbrod, Knoxville News Sentinel

* TVA ordered to pay overtime
Rebecca Ferrar, Knoxville News Sentinel

* Ill workers enduring hoax - By Joe Walker
Paducah Sun

* Progress -- Cleanup set to move forward
Paducah Sun

* RummyÕs Nuclear Weapons Could Trigger World War III
Gordon Thomas, American Free Press

* Mother, may I?
James Gordon Prather, WorldNetDaily

* Nuclear Waste Sit: Protest Continues in Basilicata
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia

* Hopes about Bulgaria's N-plant Peer Review "Ungrounded"
Novinite

* A Battle of Words Over War Intelligence
Judith Miller, New York Times

* Nuclear Agency Divided Over Iran Resolution
Douglas Frantz, Los Angeles Times

* Iran says IAEA nuclear talks going its way
Channel News Asia

* IAEA authorized to follow Iran case
IRIB