[see yesterday's items]

* List of new documents today from NRC PDR

Today's source articles

* Editorial: Strange way of defining friendship
Las Vegas SUN

* High Court to Hear Cheney Energy Dispute
Anne Gearan, Las Vegas SUN

* Supreme Court to Hear Cheney Secrecy Case
David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times

* Home Home on the (Radioactive) Range
Chip Ward, ProgressiveTrail

* Downwinders tell their stories -- Individuals give testimony before scientists, experts
Patrice St. Germain, St. George Daily Spectrum

* Utahns testify at hearing on downwinder money
Nancy Perkins, Deseret News

* Letter: Envirocare's track record
William F. McKnight, Salt Lake Tribune

* Hughes' departure hurts
Tri-City Herald

* Workers turn first soil at Pit 9
Magic Valley Times-News

* License application filed for Eunice uranium factory
KOB-TV

* Up and atom
Pete V. Domenici, Albuquerque Tribune

* Nuclear plant's failed generator studied
Houston Chronicle

* Nuclear reactor startup delayed
Jim Mackinnon, Akron Beacon Journal

* ORNL involved in blackout investigation
Paul Parson, Oak Ridger

* DOE discusses future plans at Piketon plant
Van Rose, Pike County News Watchman

* LES Submits License Application to Nuclear Regulatory Commission
PRNewswire

* New law blocks plan to dispose of Superfund site water
Newsday

* Little interest in uranium hearing
Lauren Donovan, Bismarck Tribune

* Top radioactive waste doubles at landfill
Sammy Fretwell, The State

* Assembly OKs bill halting GEMS water
Alan Guenther, Cherry Hill Courier Post

* Estimated cost of closing Seabrook dips slightly
Concord Monitor

* 2-year fight opened records -- Last week, the NRC released more than 100 pages.
York Daily Record

* Whose job is it, anyway?
York Daily Record

* A dirty done deal
Brattleboro Reformer

* Yankee reclaims questionable soil -- Officials say it tested clean
Toby Henry, Brattleboro Reformer

* NY Times Misrepresents Mars Missions Radiation Danger
Robert Zubrin, SpaceDaily

* Cost of USS Eisenhower grows
David Lerman, Hampton Roads Daily Press

* Secretary of Energy Announces Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs
DOE

* NRC Issues Final Significance Determination of "Red" for Auxiliary Feedwater System Problem at Point Beach
NRC

* NRC Finds No Significant Environmental Impact from Extended Operation of H.B. Robinson Nuclear Plant
NRC

* Davis-Besse Restart Meeting Postponed to Dec. 29, Meeting on NRC Inspection Findings Delayed until Dec. 19
NRC

* NRC Staff Seeks Input on Quad Cities Draft Environmental Report for License Renewal
NRC

* NRC Prohibits Former Senior Reactor Operator from Some NRC-Licensed Activities for 3 Years
NRC

* NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board - Rocky Flats, CO, 70008 [03-30972]
Energy Department

* NOTICES Environmental statements; availability, etc.: Virginia Electric & Power Co., 70050-70051 [03-30960]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 70051 [03-31081]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Carolina Power & Light Co., 70049-70050 [03-30958]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* NOTICES Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Southern Nuclear Operating Co., Inc.; correction, 70050 [03-30959]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

* Highly enriched uranium or intelligence?
Tom Plate, Singapore Straits Times

* Blix Unveils New Weapons Commission
Mattias Karen, The Guardian

* Ontario power utility faces $350M loss
Richard Brennan and Theresa Boyle, Toronto Star

* Another spill at Olympic Dam
ABC

* Uranium plant in fifth spill this year
Terry Plane, The Australian

* Uranium mine spill 'no danger'
News Limited

* EDF lauds China stance on nuclear power plant
People's Daily

* N-talks may drag on for years: S. Korean official
William Choong, Straits Times

* Kyrgyz Town Has Uranium in Its Blood
Burt Herman, Moscow Times

* Nuclear Reactors to Remain Closed
Graeme Evans, The Scotsman

* Babtie tackles nuclear industry skills shortage
UK Online Recruitment

* Appeal for anti-nuke litigation costs
Von Anke Dreckmann, de.indymedia

* British Energy shutdown goes on
Evening Standard

* Russian State Duma deputy initiated arrest of environmental activists
Bellona

* Weapons labs are proof of WMD, says Blair
News Limited

* Saddam WMDs unlikely: Blix
Mattias Karen, News Limited

* Blair: Iraq Weapons Hunt Must Continue
Jill Lawless, The Guardian

* A response to Mohamed ElBaradei
Reuven Pedatzur, Ha'aretz Daily

* Lord proposes burying UK's nuclear waste in Sahara
Ananova