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What's News
Updated - Sunday, May 11, 2008

• Nevada Appeal - Reprocessing nuclear waste makes more sense than storing it - John Scire
• Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) - Reid Unveils Consumer First Energy Act
• East Valley Tribune - Patterson: Anti-nuclear bias fuels energy woes - Tom Patterson,
• Los Angeles Daily News - Despite claims, new reactors are no answer to California's energy needs - Thomas D. Elias
• San Jose Mercury News - Air cargo container with radioactive material leaks near LAX
• Press-Enterprise - Cleanup method considered for Norco's Wyle site poses 'tradeoff' - Alicia Robinson and Paige Austin
• Tri-City Herald - Governor, look inward for answers on Areva
• Daily Camera - Congressmen, group attack plan to purge Rocky Flats records
• Daily Camera - Company challenges EPA ruling--Ruling pertains to uranium mining permits - Felicia Fonseca
• Denver Post - FLATS: ID-theft fears scratched plan to donate papers to CU
• Houston Chronicle - Costs may slow nuclear upswing - Joshua Boak
• redOrbit - Kentucky Mulls Lifting Ban on Nuclear Plants - Blankinship, Steve
• Knoxville News Sentinel - TVA working to stay on top in changing industry, but public status, priorities here to stay - Larisa Brass
• Knoxville News Sentinel - Bill calls for federal oversight of TVA - Scott Barker
• Knoxville News Sentinel - Snapshot of major events in TVA history
• Barre Montpelier Times Argus - No one knows what makes up sewage sludge - Kevin S. Vineys
• OpEdNews - Can Fungi Really Stop the Radioactive Contamination of Our Earth? - Cathy Garger
• East Asia: UPI - Seoul mulls aid package for North Korea
• East Asia: Dong-A Ilbo - Six-Party Talks to Resume Early Next Month
• East Asia: Yonhap News - Seoul set to approve 10 bln won in aid for N. Korea: official
• Southeast Asia: VietNamNet Bridge - Nuclear power exhibition to be held in Hanoi
• South Asia: Assam Tribune - Pranab conveys nuclear deal problem to US
• South Asia: Calcutta Telegraph - Helium debut on nuke date - M.R. Venkatesh
• South Asia: Deccan Herald - Advani blasts UPA for ignoring 'nuclear day'
• South Asia: The Hindu - We need to take some hard decisions, says Bardhan - Sandeep Joshi
• South Asia: Hindustan Times - SP softens stand on nuclear deal - Srinand Jha, Hindustan Times
• South Asia: Hindustan Times - Listen to voice of wisdom on N-deal: PM
• South Asia: PTI - We are investing heavily in uranium exploration: Kakodkar
• South Asia: Times of India - N-deal in limbo, but full steam ahead on defence agreements - Rajat Pandit
• South Asia: APP - Global pact on nuclear weapons control reviewed at UN
• Europe: AFP Google - Britain, Russia look to make up as G8 meeting announced
• Europe: AFP Google - French contemplate bid for leading UK nuclear utility
• Europe: The Independent - Offers open until June at British Energy - Mark Leftly
• Middle East: LA Times blog - IRAQ: The elusive Iranian weapons
• Middle East: Washington Post - Purchases Linked N. Korean to Syria - Robin Wright and Joby Warrick
• Middle East: AFP Google - Iran, IAEA to resume nuclear talks: envoy
• Middle East: Reuters - Iran, IAEA to resume nuclear talks on Monday: report
• Middle East: AlJazeera - The Iranian chessboard - Pepe Escobar
• Middle East: IRIB News - IAEA's delegation to visit Iran
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran, IAEA to resume talks on Monday
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran reaffirms non-intervention in others affairs
• Middle East: IRNA - No report on Solana's future visit to Iran: Hosseini
• Middle East: IRNA - Tel Aviv, root cause of all regional crises: Hosseini
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran not to consider any package violating rights of nation
• Middle East: Payvand - US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'No incentives outweigh Iran's rights'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Iran, IAEA to resume talks Monday
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'Iran rejects unconventional weapons'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Bush gift to Israel: Anti-Iran shield?

Updated - Saturday, May 10, 2008

• TIME - Hitting a Nuclear Roadblock - Kate Pickert
• Denver Post - Purge of Rocky Flats records--Copies would be posted online; critics of DOE say original files crucial - Ann Schrader
• The Examiner - Congressmen, group protest plan to purge Rocky Flats records
• Knoxville News Sentinel - Senator delivers 7 steps at ORNL - Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel - Y-12 plans to add microwave furnace - Frank Munger
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Butler County native directs nuke stockpile cuts - Thomas Olson
• Boston Herald - Nuke plant strike nears--Plymouth Pilgim workers pessimistic on talks - Jay Fitzgerald
• Brattleboro Reformer - Letter: Clarification from CVPS on state's energy future - Bob Young
• Brattleboro Reformer - Talk to focus on Yucca Mountain - Bob Audette
• Portsmouth Herald News - Nuclear plant producing again - Susan Morse
• Grist Magazine - Nuclear pork: enough is enough - Joseph Romm
• Utne Reader - The (Nuclear) Power of the Market - Keith Goetzman
• Canada: Edmonton Journal - Sask. weighs possible nuclear plant - Karen Brownlee
• Canada: Regina Leader-Post - Defusing idea of nuclear power - Bruce Johnstone
• Canada: StarPhoenix - Selling nuclear power the rub - Randy Burton
• Pacific: AirForceTimes - Military buildup threatens to overwhelm Guam - Karen Jowers
• Pacific: Melbourne Herald Sun - Hospitals releasing radioactive waste - Claire Weaver
• East Asia: BBC News - US welcomes N Korea nuclear move
• East Asia: AP Google - US envoy has North Korea nuclear records - Jin-Man Lee
• East Asia: AFP Google - US envoy returns from NKorea with nuke documents
• East Asia: Reuters - U.S. says North Korea plutonium documents date back to 1986
• East Asia: Reuters - US envoy takes nuclear documents out of N.Korea
• East Asia: Yonhap News - (4th LD) U.S. team fetches N. Korea's key nuclear data - Lee Chi-dong
• South Asia: Calcutta Telegraph - Amar lands nuke punch on Left - Hemendra Singh Bartwal
• South Asia: The Hindu - Sign the deal only after Left parties agree to it: NCP
• South Asia: The Hindu - Manmohan: hope nation will heed Kalam's counsel on nuclear deal - Vinay Kumar
• South Asia: The Hindu - Country should listen to voices of wisdom on nuke deal: PM
• South Asia: The Hindu - India should go ahead: Kalam
• South Asia: Hindustan Times - SP softens stand on nuclear deal - Srinand Jha, Hindustan Times
• South Asia: Howrah News Service - India needs proper N-waste disposal tech - Rashme Sehgal
• Europe: AFP Google - EDF makes offer for British Energy: report
• Europe: UPI - British Energy sale attracts few offers
• Europe: Western Mail - New Welsh nuclear power plant now looks likely - Darren Devine
• Middle East: AFP Google - Israel will not tolerate nuclear Iran: Olmert
• Middle East: antiwar.com - Iran, International Peace and Security - Gordon Prather
• Middle East: IRIB News - Certain states weakening NPT
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran poses no threat to any regional state: Bahraini official
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran, major victim of weapons of mass destruction: envoy
• Middle East: IRNA - US stratagem to isolate Iran proved ineffectual: Article
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Benazir, nukes and the Taliban
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Pak opposed to US action on its soil - AirForceTimes
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Israel: Iran to go nuclear at some point
• Middle East: PRESS TV - UK stance toward Iran 'gross hypocrisy'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - N-powers urge talks on Iran N-case
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Iran: N-powers must apologize to world
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Iran's proposals to be unveiled soon
• Middle East: Yemen News Agency - Yemen seeks French support to produce nuclear energy

Updated - Friday, May 09, 2008

• AP Google - Western states rebuff plan for Italian nuclear waste in Utah - John Miller
• Deseret News - Plan to store Italian nuclear waste rejected--Interstate compact votes to stop EnergySolutions - Stephen Speckman
• Deseret News - Compact votes to halt EnergySolutions proposal to import Italian waste - Stephen Speckman
• Salt Lake Tribune - Waste panel votes to ban EnergySolutions' import of Italian N-waste - Judy Fahys
• St. George Daily Spectrum - No nuclear waste
• Tri-City Herald - Lawmakers make plea for more Hanford money - Annette Cary
• Las Cruces Sun-News - NRC challenged on license approval for in-situ mining - Felicia Fonseca
• Knoxville News Sentinel - Christensen on nuclear's future role - Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel - ORNL Director's comments - Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel - EnergySolutions & Italy: the beat goes on - Frank Munger
• Reuters - FPL Wis. Pt Beach 2 reactor starts to exit refuel
• BurlingtonFreePress - Editorial: Vermont Yankee's safety must come first
• Hanford News - DOE names assistant manager for tank farms
• Hanford News - Company offers to drop lawsuit as states consider waste plan - John Miller
• Chatham Star Tribune - Letter: Uranium mine would produce tons of waste - Hildred C. Shelton
• Boston Herald - National Guard troops won't guard Plymouth nuclear plant
• DOE - U.S. Department of Energy Announces Completion of 500 Industrial Energy Saving Assessment
• NRC - NRC to Discuss 2007 Performance Assessment for Clinton Nuclear Power Plant
• NRC - NRC Names New Resident Inspector at River Bend Station
• NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission Honors Employees on June 2 in Rockville, Md
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - PROPOSED RULES Regulation of Advanced Nuclear Power Plants; Draft Statement of Policy, 26349–26351 [E8–10443]
• UN: UN News Centre - More than 100 States review global pact on nuclear weapons control - UN
• Caribbean: Bermuda Royal Gazette - Our energy future: Nuclear energy - Tari Trott
• South America: UPI - Brazil focuses on nuclear program
• Canada: Canada NewsWire - CanAlaska completes winter uranium drilling
• Canada: CBC News - Nuclear safety watchdog names new president
• Canada: CBC News - SaskPower nuclear reactor report stirs up northern debate
• Canada: CTV Winnipeg - Man killed in accident at nuclear laboratory
• Canada: National Post - Binder named to head nuclear watchdog commission - Tobin Dalrymple
• Canada: StarPhoenix - Elbow residents join nuclear debate - Karen Brownlee
• Canada: StarPhoenix - Nuclear plant decade away, says Cameco CEO Grandey - Murray Lyons
• Canada: StarPhoenix - Project a long way off: Boyd - James Wood and Randy Burton,
• Asia-Pacific: UPI - Japan, China sign oil cooperation deal
• East Asia: BBC News - N Korea hands in nuclear records
• East Asia: New York Times - North Korea Gives U.S. Files on Plutonium Efforts - Helene Cooper
• East Asia: AFP Google - US awaits 'complete' NKorea report: Negroponte
• East Asia: UPI - North Korea declares nuclear programs - Lee Jong-Heon
• East Asia: UPI - North Korea gives U.S. nuke papers
• East Asia: Xinhua News - DPRK, U.S. continue nuclear talks
• East Asia: Yonhap News - N. Korea presents key nuclear records to U.S.
• East Asia: Yonhap News - Pyongyang releases nuclear records to calm criticism: officials - Lee Chi-dong
• South Asia: Washington Post - State Department Asks Congress To Keep Quiet About Details of Deal - Glenn Kessler
• South Asia: Financial Express - China, Pak to join to build nuke plants
• South Asia: Hindustan Times - Make India a significant player in nanotechnology: Kalam
• South Asia: PTI - US govt "gags" Congress on N Deal: report
• South Asia: PTI - Navy to keep watch on Chinese nuclear submarine movements
• South Asia: Pakistan Daily Times - 'India wanted Pakistan to carry out nuclear test' - Khalid Hasan
• Europe: BBC News - British Energy bid deadline looms
• Europe: News & Star - The hero who put out a nuclear reactor fire with waterdies at 90
• Europe: AFP Google - EDF buys land near British nuclear sites: report
• Europe: Reuters - Update 4-British Energy bid war hopes wither - Mathieu Robbins and John Bowker
• Europe: Reuters - Update 1-France's EDF says bought UK land for new nuclear
• Europe: Reuters - Iberdrola has not bid for British Energy - source
• Europe: Reuters - France's EDF has bid alone for UK's British Energy
• Europe: Reuters - Update 3-British Energy bid war hopes wither
• Europe: Reuters - Finland to decide on new nuclear in 2011
• Europe: The Scotsman - Nuclear reactor restart begins
• Europe: Newsroom Finland - Finland's Pekkarinen sets timeline for nuclear building decision
• Russia: AFP Google - Nuclear missiles parade across Red Square
• Russia: BBC News - Pomp and pride on show in Moscow - Richard Galpin
• Middle East: Washington Post - A Conversation With Ehud Olmert - Lally Weymouth
• Middle East: AFP Google - Nuclear powers speak out against Iran
• Middle East: IPS - Iran: Can P5+1 Offer Break the Nuclear Stalemate? - Trita Parsi
• Middle East: IRNA - Ill intentions of certain countries revealed at NPT Conference -Soltaniyeh
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran not to yield to oppression, double-standards on nuclear rights - Rafsanjani
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran to offer new deal to break nuclear deadlock
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Bad will towards Iran evident
• Middle East: PRESS TV - West says Iran endangers NPT
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'West law of jungle applies not to Iran'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'West to offer N. cooperation to Iran'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'Iran not to halt uranium enrichment'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - US out of 5+1 diplomatic trip to Iran
• North Africa: UPI - Nuclear plan nearly ready in Egypt

Updated - Thursday, May 08, 2008

• Las Vegas Review-Journal - Yucca Mountain attorney dies at 53--Egan helped state fight proposed repository - Steve Tetrault
• OpEdNews - Speak now or for the next five years hold your peace - Andrew Kishner
• Salt Lake Tribune - Editorial: Nuclear option: Congress should settle waste debate
• St. George Daily Spectrum - Nev. test site reassessed - Patrice St. Germain
• Claremont Port Side - Nuclear Power: Not Yet - Mike Sciortino
• East Bay Business Times - URS opens nuclear power plant design and construction HQ - Steven E.F. Brown
• Lompoc Record - Editorial: Toxic thinking by EPA chiefs
• Center for Public Integrity - A Science Panel's Curious End--How a Critical Advisory Group Got Sidelined by Two Administrations - Marina Walker Guevara
• Hanford News - Board will consider landmark status
• Hanford News - Southwest Idaho company making millions by accepting toxic waste - Cynthia Sewell
• Hanford News - Italian nuclear waste on regional agenda Thursday - Brock Vergakis
• Hanford News - Idaho lands Areva plant - Annette Cary
• UW Daily - The trouble with hydrogen - Mike Noon
• Fox 12 Boise - Uranium Enrichment Plant Proposed for Idaho
• KIFI 8 - Idaho company takes in millions by taking in toxic waste
• Public Citizen - Don't Be Fooled by Nuclear Industry Shill; Environmentalists Are Not Backing New Reactors
• Knoxville News Sentinel - TVA eyes waste recycling--Energy Department awards utility $4M to draw up plans for nuke reprocessing plant - Larisa Brass
• The Tennessean - TVA says plant problems, contractor aren't related - Anne Paine
• Florida Times-Union - New reactors to mean higher utility bills - Jake Armstrong
• Platts - Georgia Power says its share of new reactors is $6.4 billion
• Aiken Standard - SRNS steps up to take over contract at SRS
• Reuters - Southern Ga. Hatch 2 reactor shut
• Charlotte Business Journal - DEC: West Valley cleanup short of goals
• CNNMoney - EnergySolutions CFO Philip Strawbridge to Address Merrill Lynch Global E&E Infrastructure Conference
• Boston Globe - State wants radiation tests at waste site in Weymouth - Robert Knox
• BurlingtonFreePress - Governor vetoes bill on Yankee - Terri Hallenbeck
• BurlingtonFreePress - No penalty for Vermont Yankee cooling-tower collapse
• Rutland Herald - Douglas vetoes decommissioning fund - Louis Porter
• Vermont Public Radio - No penalty for Vermont Yankee collapsed cooling tower
• Reuters - FPL N.H. Seabrook reactor starts to exit refuel
• 7thSpace - Kempthorne, Bodman Send Energy Letter to Speaker Pelosi
• Jewish Daily Forward - Right Angles: Let Them Change Light Bulbs - Noam Neusner
• Platts - NRC rejects OIG recommendation on security inspections
• Union of Concerned Scientists - House Kicks Off Debate Over Future Of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex
• DOE:IEA - This Week In Petroleum
• EPA - Public Meeting Concerning the Nuclear Metals Superfund Site in Concord, Mass.
• Department of Labor - U.S. Department of Labor improves energy employees' Web pages by adding information about occupational diseases to listing of toxic substances
• NRC - NRC to Discuss Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant Annual Assessment at Public Meeting Set for May 15 in Toms River, N.J.
• NRC - "Maintaining a Competent and Dedicated Workforce" NRC Commissioner Peter B. Lyons, Cape Fear Community College, May 1, 2008
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Acceptance for Docketing of the Application and Notice of Opportunity For Hearing Regarding Renewal of MIT Research Reactor No. R-37, 26148–26150 [E8–10283]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 26150 [E8–10249]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Availability of the Final Interim Staff Guidance COL-ISG-02 on Financial Qualifications of Applicants, 26151 [E8–10248]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Issuance of License Amendment for Termination of License SNM-00007 Battelle Memorial Institute West Jefferson, Ohio, 26151–26152 [E8–10281]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Request for Certificate Renewal and Opportunity for Comment: Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant; Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant; United States Enrichment Corp., 26152–26153 [E8–10284]
• South America: Mangalorean - Brazil promotes ambitious nuclear programme
• Canada: Edmonton Sun - Tories pushing to have Canada enrich uranium, but won't talk - Bruce Cheadle
• Canada: Leader-Post - Elbow area touted for a nuclear power plant - Angela Hall and James Wood
• Canada: Peterborough Examiner - Letter: It's nuclear or coal - Paul Stevens
• Canada: Prairie Post - Nuclear energy debate begins in Alberta - Rose Sanchez
• Canada: Northumberland Today - Figure was outside estimate
• Canada: StarPhoenix - Elbow-area residents split on nuclear power plant
• Canada: StarPhoenix - Nuclear power hard target - Randy Burton
• Canada: StarPhoenix - Sask. nuclear power plant still 'long ways off': Boyd - James Wood and Randy Burton
• Canada: Times and Transcript - Province to host uranium meetings - Dwayne Tingley
• Canada: Vancouver Sun - Nuclear plant proposed for drinking-water lake
• Pacific: Reuters - TEPCO says finds radioactive water leakage at plant
• Pacific: Reuters - Japan's Hokuriku says to restart nuclear unit
• Pacific: Mainichi Daily News - Man arrested over theft of radioactive material in Chiba
• East Asia: Wall Street Journal - Bush's North Korea Nuclear Abdication - John R. Bolton
• East Asia: AP Google - US diplomat receives key North Korean nuclear documents - Anne Gearan
• East Asia: AFP Google - US expert due to leave NKorea with plutonium documents: US
• East Asia: AFP Google - US expert heads to NKorea for nuclear talks
• East Asia: Reuters - North Korea hands over plutonium documents: U.S. - Sue Pleming
• East Asia: Itar-Tass - NKorea has ten plutonium war charges - SKorean official
• East Asia: Reuters - U.S. envoy returns to North Korea to extract nuclear list - Jack Kim
• East Asia: Reuters - Doosan wins $288 mln U.S. nuclear facility order
• East Asia: Yonhap News - N.K. reports on food aid negotiations with U.S.
• East Asia: Yonhap News - N. Korea, U.S. try to finalize nuclear declaration - Lee Chi-dong
• Southeast Asia: Thanh Nien Daily - US firm seeks approval to invest in nuclear power plant
• South Asia: Economic Times - Meghalaya to reconstitute Uranium Committee
• South Asia: The Hindu - France for nuclear pact with India - Ananth Krishnan and Priscilla Jebaraj
• South Asia: The Hindu - Hillary backs Indo-US nuclear deal: top aide
• South Asia: AP Google - Pakistan test-fires nuclear-capable cruise missile
• South Asia: Reuters - Pakistan tests nuclear-capable cruise missile
• Europe: IAEA - IAEA and EC Pledge Reinforcement of Nuclear Cooperation
• Europe: Glasgow Herald - Decision day for parties interested in British Energy - Douglas Hamilton
• Europe: London Times - EDF faces challenge over nuclear technology - Robin Pagnamenta
• Europe: Reuters India - UK's Hinkley Point B8 reactor tripped early Thurs
• Europe: Reuters - Iberdrola finalizing British Energy bid: reports
• Europe: UPI - Centrica fights for bid as RWE drops out
• Europe: DutchNews - Power plant wants to use plutonium
• Europe: YLE News - Majority Opposes Sixth Nuclear Reactor
• Russia: Reuters - Putin vows more cash for Russia's nuclear defences
• Middle East: AP Google - 5 nations may present new Iran offer in person - Anne Gearan
• Middle East: AFP Google - US will not send envoy to Iran with nuclear offer
• Middle East: AFP Google - US extends Syria sanctions
• Middle East: Reuters - U.S. declines to help present nuclear deal to Iran - Sue Pleming
• Middle East: Reuters - Russia joins U.N. economic sanctions on Iran
• Middle East: Investor's Business Daily - John Bolton: Bomb, Bomb Iran
• Middle East: RIA Novosti - Russia joins new UN sanctions against Iran
• Middle East: IRIB News - IRI rejects any imposed demands
• Middle East: IRIB News - IAEA never used non-compliance term regarding IRI
• Middle East: IRNA - Supreme Leader: US root-cause of insecurity, instability in region
• Middle East: PRESS TV - EU may offer Iran incentives directly
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'IAEA never called Iran non-compliant'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Iran, NAM discuss planned package
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Bush vows more sanctions on Syria
• Middle East: PRESS TV - NATO to get rid of N-waste in Uzbekistan
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'Iran ready to resume talks with EU'
• West Africa: New York Academy of Sciences - The Oklo Natural Nuclear Reactor - Steve Lamoreaux

Updated - Wednesday, May 07, 2008

• Las Vegas SUN - Yucca Mountain attorney dies of stomach cancer - Mary Manning
• Las Vegas Review-Journal - Lawyer reduces role in Yucca Mountain fight - Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas Review-Journal - Lake Mead cleanup proves successful--EPA, water officials cooperate to reduce levels of perchlorate - Keith Rogers
• Salt Lake Tribune - EnergySolutions sues to block panel's say on waste - Judy Fahys
• San Juan Record - Uranium once again being milled in San Juan County - Buckley Jensen
• The Columbian - Washington View: Nuclear power could fight global warming - Don Brunell
• KIFI 8 - How Areva Plans To Boost Eastern Idaho's Economy - Danielle Grant
• Kansas City Star - Nuclear power bill passes Kansas Legislature
• Lawrence Journal World - Lawmakers approve nuclear incentives - Scott Rothschild
• Chattanooga Times Free Press - TVA has plans for nuke waste recycling facility
• Knoxville News Sentinel - Munger: If looks alone could kill, Y-12 site would be deadly - Frank Munger
• The Tennessean - Group gets extension on TVA nuclear site
• Atlanta Journal Constitution - Georgia Power to pay $6.4 billion for new nuclear reactors - Kristi E. Swartz
• Tampa Bay Online - Ex-Nuclear Plant Workers Want Government Compensation - Steve Andrews
• Reuters - Southern Ga. Hatch 2 reactor starts to exit outage
• Virginian-Pilot - Nuclear-powered Savannah leaving Virginia waters after 14 years - Scott Harper
• Columbus Dispatch - DOE plan for nuke waste is reshelved--Too many 'unknowns' for recycling at Piketon site - Jonathan Riskind
• Press and Journal - Environment impacted, but how? NRC documents public input for TMI's re-licensing application - Marlene Lang
• Reuters - PSEG N.J. Salem 2 reactor starts to exit refuel
• BurlingtonFreePress - Governor vows veto of Yankee decommissioning bill
• Rutland Herald - NRC hits Yankee with 'noncited violation' over cooling tower - Susan Smallheer
• New York Times - Iran Group Not Terrorists, Court Finds - John F. Burns
• UPI - DoE announces carbon-storage funding
• CDC:NIOSH - NIOSH eNews
• DOE - DOE Takes Next Steps with Restructured FutureGen Approach
• DOE - U.S. Under Secretary of Energy to Announce Next Steps on Restructured FutureGen Approach
• NRC - Radiation Protection--Revised and expanded information about radiation around us, its health effects and impact on national security, and the NRC's approach to radiation protection.
• Energy Department - NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Hanford, 25693–25694 [E8–10098]
• Canada: Calgary Herald - Alberta faces fight for reactor - Jon Harding
• Canada: Edmonton Sun - Potential nuclear plant site found in Saskatchewan
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Shimbun - Hibakusha: Hiding from prejudice and pain in the little house of love
• East Asia: Bloomberg - U.S. Sends Envoy to North Korea to Obtain Nuclear Declaration - Heejin Koo
• East Asia: Yonhap News - No economic aid for nuclear-armed N. Korea: Canberra
• South Asia: Bloomberg - India Test-Fires Nuclear-Capable, Surface-to-Surface Missile - Bibhudatta Pradhan
• South Asia: UPI - India seeks new uranium sources
• South Asia: Xinhua News - India claims successful test-fire of Agni-III missile
• South Asia: Bombay News - Differences crop up in Left over IAEA agreement
• South Asia: Calcutta Telegraph - N-deal hope on PM's lips
• South Asia: The Hindu - US State Department unsure about Burns' role in Nuke deal
• Europe: Xinhua News - EU, IAEA to enhance cooperation in nuclear energy
• Europe: Kathimerini - Nuclear power considered--Greece should begin thinking about whether to build reactors, ministry says
• Russia: AP Google - Russia, US sign civil nuclear pact - Maria Danilova
• Russia: Reuters - Lawmakers urge Bush to shelve Russia nuclear deal - Susan Cornwell
• Russia: Washington Post - U.S., Russia Sign Pact On Nuclear Cooperation - Peter Finn
• Russia: RIA Novosti - Russian uranium will be directly supplied to the United States
• Middle East: AP Google - 5 nations may present new Iran offer in person - Anne Gearan
• Middle East: AFP Google - Iranian ambassador hints at nuclear plan: report
• Middle East: AFP Google - Iran ex-president urges better climate for nuclear deal
• Middle East: AFP Google - New round of US-Iran security talks unlikely: Iraqi FM
• Middle East: Reuters - Iran's influence in Latin America worries U.S.
• Middle East: Reuters - Iraq urges Iran, U.S. to talk
• Middle East: Press Association - Show sensitivity to Iran, US urged
• Middle East: IRIB News - IR of Iran committed to NPT
• Middle East: IRIB News - US' Iranphobia policy ineffective
• Middle East: IRNA - Soltanieh: IAEA never used 'non-compliance' in Iran's case
• Middle East: PRESS TV - ElBaradei: 'Good progress' in Iran talks
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'Post 9/11 US conspired to invade Iran'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Iran MP: West incentives are 'flawed'

Updated - Tuesday, May 06, 2008

• Egan, Fitzpatrick & Malsch - Nevada's Yucca Law Firm Makes Changes (pdf-58K)
• Reuters - Nuclear energy heats up US presidential race - Jeff Mason
• Reuters - Factbox-US presidential candidates on nuclear energy
• Reno Gazette-Journal - Response teams train for disaster - Lenita Powers
• Deseret News - Utah official on compact not budging on Italian waste - Stephen Speckman
• Deseret News - EnergySolutions sues to import Italy nuclear waste - Stephen Speckman
• Salt Lake Tribune - EnergySolutions sues to stop state's bid to block Italian nuke waste - Judy Fahys
• St. George Daily Spectrum - Meeting in St. George will focus on Nevada Test Site
• UPI - Firm wants to import Italian nuke waste
• Press-Enterprise - State official wants to add Rialto perchlorate site to federal Superfund list - Jennifer Bowles
• Daily Astorian - Letter: Renewable energy is better - Paul Sansone
• Tri-City Herald - Update: Areva chooses Idaho site instead of Richland - Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald - Gregoire takes heat over Areva decision w/audio - Chris Mulick
• Hanford News - Rattlesnake Mountain tenants to keep leases for now - Franny White
• KIFI 8 - $2 Billion Uranium Enrichment Plant Coming to Bonneville County
• KIFI 8 - INL Reacts to AREVA Announcement
• Carlsbad Current-Argus - Officials: Areva decides on Idaho, not N.M. - Kyle Marksteiner
• Dallas Morning News - NM senator says Idaho chosen for enrichment factory - Uranium Enrichment Factor
• Las Cruces Sun-News - New Mexico loses out on $2 billion plant
• Platts - Areva said to have chosen Idaho site for uranium enrichment plant
• AP Google - Grand jury documents on nuke weapons plant probe stay secret
• Canon City Daily Record - Uranium mining bill heads to Ritter - Debbie Bell
• Denver Post - Some Flats data public--Judge keeps lid on testimony, disappointing grand jurors - Joey Bunch
• Rocky Mountain News - Judge won't unseal Rocky Flats jury testimony - Jean Torkelson
• Emporia Gazette - Nuke plant refueling is behind schedule - Brandy Nance
• Knoxville News Sentinel - TVA to design concept plan for nuclear waste reprocessing plant - Larisa Brass
• Knoxville News Sentinel - EnergySolutions takes nuke issue to court - Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel - Tennessee claims net $833 million-plus - Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel - Activist groups protest new 'clean-coal' practice of carbon sequestration - Larisa Brass
• Oak Ridger - ORNL's impact on industrial economy
• Oak Ridger - DOE to test public warning siren system Wednesday
• Oak Ridger - Our International Friendship Bell -- a unique Oak Ridge symbol - D. Ray Smith
• Reuters - FPL heats up Fla. Turkey Pt 4 reactor
• WatertownDailyTimes - Alliance details plans for river turbines - David Winters
• AlterNet - A Nuclear Energy Renaissance Wouldn't Solve Our Problems, But It Would Rip Us Off - Christian Parenti
• Arms Control Today - Key GNEP Decision Left to Next President - Miles A. Pomper
• AP Google - EPA might not act to limit rocket fuel in drinking water - Erica Werner
• BBC News - Fungi to fight 'toxic war zones'
• Grist Magazine - Nukes for all--McCain calls for 700+ new nuclear plants costing $4 trillion - Joseph Romm
• Grist Magazine - That nuclear renaissance: any day now--Industry bottlenecks will delay any reactors for years, maybe longer - John McGrath
• MWC News - The Unconstitutionality of Nuclear Power Regulation in America - Ace Hoffman
• Platts - US NRC chief says three-year wait for nuclear reactor vessels
• Platts - NEI re-elects number of members to its board
• DOE - DOE Awards $126.6 Million for Two More Large-Scale Carbon Sequestration Projects
• DOE - DOE Announces Up to $7.5 Million in Advanced Technology Research to Harness Energy Potential of Oceans, Tides and Rivers
• DOE - Santa Monica High School From Santa Monica, Calif. Wins U.S. Department of Energy National Science Bowl®
• DOE - Senior Department of Energy Officials to Highlight the Role of Clean Power in our Nation's Energy Future
• DOE - Speech: Department of Energy National Science Bowl
• NRC - NRC to Hold Public Meeting May 12 in Paducah to Discuss Recertification of USEC Enrichment Plant
• NRC - "Challenges to Licensing the Next Generation of Nuclear Plants" NRC Chairman Dale E. Klein, NEI/NEA Conference, Chicago, May 6, 2008
• NRC - NRC to Discuss Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant Annual Assessment at Public Meeting Set for May 12 in Brattleboro, Vt.
• NRC - NRC to Discuss 2007 Performance Assessment for Palisades Nuclear Power Plant
• NRC - Goldman Sachs, Remarks Prepared for NRC Chairman Dale E. Klein, New York, NY, May 5, 2008
• NRC - NUREG-1437, Supplement 35: Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2, Draft Report for Comment
• Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - NOTICES FOIA Fee Schedule Update, 24956–24957 [E8–9955]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Application Renewal; Reciept and Availability: Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 And 2; Nuclear Management Co., LLC, 25034 [E8–9939]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Biweekly Notice: Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations, 25034–25050 [E8–9679]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Environmental Assessment: Humboldt Bay Power Plant Unit 3; Humboldt, CA, 25050–25051 [E8–9937]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Environmental Assessment; Availability, Etc.: Virginia Commonwealth University's Incineration Facility, Ashland, VA, 25051–25053 [E8–9916]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Facility Operating License Consideration, etc.: Southern California Edison, 25053–25054 [E8–9940]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 25055 [08–1224]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Renewed Facility Operating License Application; Withdrawal: Millstone Power Station, Unit No. 2; Dominion Nuclear Conneticut, Inc., 25055 [E8–9936]
• Canada: Peterborough Examiner - Letter: Nuclear's long reach - Corinne Mintz
• Asia: The Hindu - China evades queries on secret submarine base
• Asia: Reuters - China shrugs off report of tropical nuclear sub base
• East Asia: AP Google - US official to travel to NKorea - Foster Klug
• East Asia: AFP Google - US envoys head to Asia in new bid for NKorean nuclear declaration
• East Asia: Yonhap News - U.S. prepares to send food to N. Korea
• East Asia: Yonhap News - U.S. diplomat to visit Pyongyang for nuclear talks
• Southeast Asia: Nhan Dan - Nuclear energy law awaits May approval
• South Asia: Newstrack India - Govt holds talks with Left to clear stalemate on nuke deal - Vikash Ranjan
• South Asia: PTI - If deal fails during Bush admn, uncertainty will rise: Saran
• South Asia: UPI - Completion of nuclear deal urged
• South Asia: Financial Express - 123 pact with US unlikely during Bush tenure: govt
• South Asia: The Hindu - Early end to session outrageous: CPI
• South Asia: The Hindu - UPA-Left panel on nuke deal decide to meet on May 28
• South Asia: Hindustan Times - Is climate change the new NPT? - Nilova Roy Chaudhury
• South Asia: India Statesman - Signs of a thaw at N-meet
• South Asia: Times of India - Time running out for N-deal, govt tells Left
• Europe: The Independent - Centrica fights to stay in Brit Energy bidding - David Prosser
• Europe: Glasgow Herald - Iberdrola puts final touches to nuclear bid - Douglas Hamilton
• Europe: Nordic Council - Finnish nuclear power plant is safe
• Europe: Reuters - Spain's 1,000 MW Trillo nuclear plant back on line
• East Europe: RIA Novosti - Most Ukrainians against joining NATO - poll
• Russia: BBC News - Russia and US strike nuclear deal
• Russia: AP Google - US-Russia pact faces opposition in Congress - Frederic J. Frommer
• Russia: AP Google - Russia, US to sign nuclear pact - Maria Danilova
• Russia: AFP Google - Russia, US sign nuclear energy deal
• Russia: Platts - US, Russia sign agreement for nuclear cooperation
• Russia: Reuters - Russia, U.S. sign civilian nuclear pact - Guy Faulconbridge
• Russia: Reuters - Update 3-Russia, US to sign civilian nuclear pact-source - Guy Faulconbridge
• Russia: UPI - Peaceful nuclear cooperation deal signed
• Russia: RIA Novosti - Russia, U.S. to sign civilian nuclear cooperation pact Tues.
• Russia: RIA Novosti - IAEA to oversee Belarus nuclear plant project
• Russia: Xinhua News - Russia, U.S. ink nuclear energy deal
• Middle East: Gulf Daily News - Bahrain may be going nuclear - Mandeep Singh
• Middle East: Gulf Daily News - Bahrain centre for N-training? - Mandeep Singh
• Middle East: Gulf Daily News - Nuclear accidents 'can destroy entire Gulf'
• Middle East: Gulf Daily News - Japan vows atomic help - Noor Toorani
• Middle East: Gulf Daily News - First nuclear plant ... in four months - Mandeep Singh
• Middle East: Gulf Daily News - Iran's N-plant to start in September - Mandeep Singh
• Middle East: New York Times - Iran Halts Talks With U.S. on Iraq - Alissa J. Rubin
• Middle East: New York Times - Letters: Iran's Nuclear 'Enigma' (2 Letters)
• Middle East: AP Google - Diplomats say IAEA chief urging more US flexibility on Iran - George Jahn
• Middle East: IRIB News - G 5+1 urged to quit precondition on N-talks
• Middle East: IRIB News - World expected to support IRI right
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran committed to NPT
• Middle East: IRNA - Russia slams British statement on Iran - RIA Novosti
• Middle East: IRNA - China urges diplomacy to solve dispute on Iran nuclear program
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran advises G 5+1 to give up precondition for nuclear talks
• Middle East: IRNA - International community expected to support Iran's nuclear right
• Middle East: PRESS TV - ElBaradei urges US to engage Iran
• Middle East: PRESS TV - France: Iran incentives 'within days'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - US to stand by Israel for eternity
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Crude price reaches above $122
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Lavrov denies UK claims on Iran talks
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'West's incentive package worthless'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Oil approaches $121 on supply concerns
• Middle East: PRESS TV - West to present Iran incentives soon
• West Africa: AllAfrica - Nigeria: Electricity - Postpone Nuclear Power Project Until 2020
• East Africa: Uganda New Vision - NRM MPs support Atomic Energy Bill - Cyprian Musoke and Joyce Namutebi

Updated - Monday, May 05, 2008

• Las Vegas SUN - Attorney in Nevada's Yucca case is seriously ill - Mary Manning
• Deseret News - Firm pitches idea for a uranium mill
• Tri-City Herald - Hanford molasses results sweet, so far - Annette Cary
• Carlsbad Current-Argus - Daughter files suit to help father who lived in Los Alamos
• The Coloradoan - Uranium bill heads to Gov. Ritter - Jason Kosena
• Miami Herald - Electric bills will rise to pay for new nukes - John Dorschner
• Reuters - Southern Ga. Hatch 2 reactor shut
• Asheville Citizen-Times - Duke nuclear plant would use 50M gallons of water a day
• Greenville News - Nuclear reactor will be shut down until cause of vibration found - Anna Simon
• The State - Reactor use suspended until probe completed
• Reuters - Duke S.C. Catawba 1 reactor shut
• Twin Cities Planet - The nuclear option - Nick Busse
• LaSalle News Tribune - Exelon passes NRC tests - Kevin Caufield
• Plain Dealer - Letter: How is the cleanup coming along at Harshaw Chemical Co. in the Flats? - Jim Nichols
• Rutland Herald - Letter: Entergy using sleight of hand - Scott Ainslie
• Rutland Herald - Chaffee exhibit depicts horrors of war - Sara-Megan Walsh
• Business Wire - Nuclear Energy Institute Re-Elects Exelon's Rowe As Chairman, OPPD's Gates as Vice Chairman
• Press Association - Fungi could reduce uranium risk
• Science Daily - Fungi Have A Hand In Depleted Uranium's Environmental Fate
• UPI - Manhattan Project blamed for cancer
• Washington Post - The Disconnected President - Dan Froomkin
• FCNL - Nuclear Calendar Update
• CDC:NIOSH - What's New on the NIOSH Web Site
• DOE - U.S. Department of Energy Partners with City of Greensburg, Kansas to Help Rebuild With 100 Percent Renewable Energy
• DOE - Senior Department of Energy Official to Outline Cold War Era Nuclear Waste Cleanup Progress at Environmental Management Advisory Board Semi-Annual Meeting
• DOE - DOE-Sponsored Public Meetings and Workshops
• NRC - Remarks at the North American Energy Summit, NRC Chairman Dale E. Klein, University of Texas, San Antonio, May 1, 2008
• Defense Department - NOTICES Meetings: Nuclear Command and Control System Comprehensive Review Advisory Committee, 24574–24575 [E8–9817]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - PROPOSED RULES Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, 24837–24839 [E8–7321]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Issuance of Director's Decision: Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., 24616 [E8–9798]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission - NOTICES Receipt and Availability of Application for a Combined License Southern Nuclear Operating Company, 24616–24617 [E8–9792]
• Pacific: ABC - Nuclear reactor 'flawed from start'
• Pacific: Pacific Daily News - Radiation survivors association meets tomorrow night
• Pacific: Pacific Magazine - Nuclear Test Veterans May Hold Hunger Strike
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters - Japan, Kazakhstan to push nuclear co-operation - Raushan Nurshayeva
• East Asia: AFP Google - US envoy to visit NKorea this week: report
• East Asia: Reuters - N.Korea six-party talks could come this month: report
• East Asia: Yonhap News - U.S. official to make second visit to N.K.
• East Asia: Yonhap News - N.K. paper slams Lee's visits to U.S., Japan
• Southeast Asia: Viet Nam News - Nuclear energy law awaits May approval
• South Asia: Calcutta Telegraph - Chinese nuclear submarines too close for comfort - Sujan Dutta
• South Asia: Calcutta Telegraph - Left glare on nuke safeguard - Jayanth Jacob
• South Asia: The Hindu - UPA to brief Left on deliberations at IAEA tomorrow
• South Asia: The Hindu - India concerned over number of Chinese nuke subs
• South Asia: The Hindu - A benign arbitrator? - M. K. Bhadrakumar
• South Asia: India Statesman - Panel meet on N-deal today
• South Asia: India Statesman - India was right in snubbing US over Iran advice
• South Asia: PTI - UPA to brief Left on deliberations at IAEA tomorrow - Cleveland Plain Dealer
• South Asia: PTI - Left maintains opposition to Indo-US deal
• South Asia: Times of India - N-deal status quo likely to stay - Akshaya Mukul
• Europe: BBC News - Nuclear threat sparked tea worry
• Europe: Daily Telegraph - EDF is clear favourite for UK nuclear bid - Russell Hotten
• Europe: The Guardian - French bid may secure nuclear firm - Terry Macalister and Mark Milner
• East Europe: Kyiv Post - 22 years after Chernobyl disaster construction of new shelter underway
• Russia: redOrbit - Russia's Tvel Could Put New Vver Reactor Fuel on Market
• Middle East: Daily Telegraph - US military chief in overstretch warning on Iran - Damien McElroy
• Middle East: Los Angeles Times - Iraq sends mixed message on Iran, weapons - Alexandra Zavis
• Middle East: AP Google - Iran rejects nuclear inspections unless Israel allows them - Alexander G. Higgins
• Middle East: AP Google - Israeli president likens Iranian nuclear threat to Hitler - Steven Gutkin and Amy Teibel
• Middle East: AP Google - Iran vows not to halt its nuclear program despite pressure
• Middle East: AFP Google - US says talks with Iran 'meaningless' without change in behavior
• Middle East: AFP Google - Israel's Peres says nuclear Iran would be 'nightmare'
• Middle East: AFP Google - Iran to reject any nuclear offer 'that violates rights'
• Middle East: Reuters - Factbox-U.S. presidential candidates on Iran
• Middle East: Reuters - U.S. says Iran will get incentives "very quickly" - Sue Pleming
• Middle East: Reuters - Iran says new talks with U.S. on Iraq meaningless - Hossein Jaseb
• Middle East: Reuters - Iran rejection of nuclear offer premature: France
• Middle East: Reuters - Iran rules out nuclear halt despite fresh incentives - Edmund Blair
• Middle East: Reuters - Hezbollah training Iraqis in Iran - New York Times
• Middle East: Reuters - Iran says new talks with U.S. on Iraq meaningless - Hossein Jaseb
• Middle East: Reuters - Top U.S. officer says would prefer no war on Iran
• Middle East: UPI - Outside View: Iran and ABMs - Andrei Kislyakov
• Middle East: UPI - Iran refuses latest nuclear incentive plan
• Middle East: RIA Novosti - Russia slams British statement on Iran
• Middle East: IRIB News - IRI scientific progress serves region
• Middle East: IRIB News - Talks with US on Iraq are useless
• Middle East: IRNA - Soltanieh: Non-nuclear states should not be blamed for ongoing concerns
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran not considering suspicious reports: Hosseini
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran has not received sweeteners yet
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'NPT threatened by world powers'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'NATO stands by US missile plan'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - US claims Hezbollah trains Iraqis in Iran
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Supply panic pushes oil over $120
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Peres: Iran worst Hitlerite nightmare
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Paris: Iran's incentive response, hasty
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'No Iran-US talks in present situation'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'Iran not to retreat an inch on its N-right'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Mullen: Time not ripe for attacking Iran
• Middle East: PRESS TV - No new N-package received by Iran

Updated - Sunday, May 04, 2008

• Huffington Post - McCain calls for 700+ new nuclear plants (and 7 Yucca mountains) costing $4 trillion - Joseph Romm
• Las Vegas SUN - A coal-fired discussion--Four experts debate how best to meet Nevada's energy needs - Phoebe Sweet
• Provo Daily Herald - IN OUR VIEW: Keep imported nuke waste out
• Salt Lake Tribune - Don't be deceived, there's no such thing as 'clean coal' - Cherise Udell
• Los Angeles Times - Uranium claims spring up along Grand Canyon rim - Judy Pasternak
• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Lab panel is feeling ignored--Wyle advisory group says state is not cooperating - Liset Marquez
• San Diego Union Tribune - N. California surging ahead on solar power - Bruce V. Bigelow
• Las Cruces Sun-News - Daughter files suit to help father who lived in Los Alamos
• Aiken Standard - Senate panel boosts SRS budget total
• Greenville News - Nuclear reactor will be shut down until cause of vibration found - Anna Simon
• WAVY-TV - Duke Energy plans to use river water for new nuclear plant
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Nuclear settlement money little solace for survivors in Armstrong County - Robin Acton
• redOrbit - Renewables: an Inconvenient Energy Reality - L Alan Weakly
• Newsweek - Book: Whitewashing Toxic Chemicals - Sharon Begley
• Pacific: Green Left Weekly - The nuclear 'solution' to climate change - Jim Green
• Pacific: Green Left Weekly - Nuclear power and climate change
• East Asia: International Herald Tribune - US State Department official to visit North Korea for nuclear talks, report says
• East Asia: UPI - Bush slammed for North Korea policy
• East Asia: Yonhap News - More South Koreans toured North Korea despite chill in ties
• Southeast Asia: VietNamNet Bridge - Preparations hastened for first nuclear power plant
• South Asia: Bangladesh New Nation - Nuclear plant for electricity
• South Asia: Assam Tribune - Talks on first nuclear plant for NE begin
• South Asia: The Hindu - UPA-Left panel meet tomorrow - Sandeep Dikshit
• South Asia: India Statesman - N-deal talks tomorrow
• South Asia: Pakistan Daily Times - Power generator unit shuts down, unannounced load shedding follows - Irfan Aligi
• Europe: Daily Telegraph - Centrica hunts role on British Energy
• Europe: London Times - Nuclear reactors will cost twice estimate, says E.ON chiefRobin Pagnamenta
• Europe: The Observer - Roxburgh quits as chief of nuclear authority - Tim Webb
• East Europe: Itar-Tass - Belarus opens temporary access to cemeteries in Chernobyl exclusion zone
• Russia: Moscow Times - U.S. Administration Pushes Nuclear Pact - Susan Cornwell
• Russia: Moscow Times - Bush's Missile-Defense Plan Inches Forward in Congress
• Middle East: AP Google - Obama says Clinton's talk on Iran too much like Bush's - Liz Sidoti
• Middle East: AFP Google - Khamenei rules out halt to Iran's nuclear drive
• Middle East: Reuters - Obama chides Clinton's 'cowboy' talk on Iran - Patrick Rucker
• Middle East: Reuters - Iraq says to probe claims of Iran meddling - Waleed Ibrahim
• Middle East: Reuters - Iran says will not bow to Western pressure - Zahra Hosseinian
• Middle East: RIA Novosti - Iran dictates its terms to the Security Council
• Middle East: Khaleej Times - Bomb Iran? We know where that came from! - Debbie Menon
• Middle East: IRNA - Mottaki: Iran's scientific progress to expand regional cooperation
• Middle East: IRNA - Big powers to offer sweeteners to Iran
• Middle East: PRESS TV - 'IPI to test India's foreign policy'
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Report: MI6, Mossad team up on Iran
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Nothing new in West's package
• North Africa: Xinhua News - Egypt to assess first nuclear plant's tender papers

Updated - Saturday, May 03, 2008

• State of Nevada - Letter to Ann K. Quinlan, Surface Transportation Board, Re: STB Finance Docket No. 35106--State Of Nevada's Motion for Leave to Amend Motion To Reject DOE's Application, or alternatively, To Require Responsive Comments Only After Application Has Been Fully Completed By Proper Supplement and Request for Oral Argument and Exhibit A - Proposed State Of Nevada's First Amended Motion To Reject DOE's Application, or alternatively, To Require Responsive Comments Only After Application Has Been Fully Completed By Proper Supplement (pdf-546K)
• Las Vegas Review-Journal - Feds find glitches in Yucca documentation--Quality assurance program continues to encounter snags - Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas Review-Journal - State seeks more time for Yucca review - Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas Review-Journal - Local Students Offer Hope for Science Education - Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy
• Pahrump Valley Times - Back Then: 20 years ago this week
• Arizona Republic - Letter: Nuclear power beats solar, wind - Patrick Maderia
• Tri-City Herald - $106M Battelle project to employ 100 - Pratik Joshi
• The Coloradoan - Stop uranium mining - Taylor Steshyn
• Bay City Tribune - STP makes changs in organization
• The Tennessean - Tennessee group fights to keep out nuclear waste
• Bradenton Herald - FPL petition may bump electric bills 2 percent
• Baltimore Examiner - Demonstrators protest Maryland's new nuclear plant - Len Lazarick
• BurlingtonFreePress - Speaker draws awareness to nuclear industry - Sally Pollak
• Rutland Herald - At session's end
• antiwar.com - Lieberman's Tough Questions - Gordon Prather
• New York Times - Saturday Interview: Turning Energy Uncertainty Into Opportunity - Clifford Krauss
• Los Angeles Times - Energy economics--Corn ethanol is squeezing out greener technologies. We need low-carbon fuel standards instead.
• UPI - NNSA launches new secured agency network
• Canada: Daily Gleaner - Letter: Reasons to fight uranium mining plans - Ted Wiggans
• Canada: Sudbury Star - Study of uranium mine project
• Canada: Toronto Star - Nuclear revival bumps against atrophy--Possible shortage of super-forged parts threatens to delay renaissance - Tyler Hamilton
• Canada: Vancouver Sun - Letter: Nuclear power is the ultimate clean energy - Stewart Wallis
• East Asia: Dong-A Ilbo - Nuclear Warheads Likely to Be Left Out of N. Korea's Report
• East Asia: Yonhap News - N. Korea continues to bash S. Korean president
• South Asia: Calcutta Telegraph - Nuke eye on Meghalaya
• South Asia: Calcutta Telegraph - Nuke panel meet, for sake of meeting
• South Asia: The Hindu - Feasibility of nuclear plant in North-East to be studied
• South Asia: The Hindu - Sense of House needs to be taken on n-deal: panel - Vinay Kumar
• South Asia: Times of India - Govt: Uranium shortage has hit N-power plants
• South Asia: APP - Japan hails Pakistan's steps for consolidation of nuclear export control regime
• Europe: London Times - Centrica close to French tie-up for British nuclear bid - John Waples and Iain Dey
• Europe: London Times - Scientists to 'recreate sun' in hunt for energyJonathan Leake
• Europe: London Times - MI6 chief visits Mossad for talks on Iran's nuclear threatUzi Mahnaimi
• Europe: Sunday Herald - Leukaemia and nuclear power: what's the secret? A request to publish childhood leukaemia figures has mushroomed into a landmark court case - Paul Hutcheon
• Middle East: Los Angeles Times - Cloak and stagger--After overestimating the Iraq threat, U.S. intelligence agencies are now dangerously underestimating Syria and Iran. - Leonard S. Spector and Avner Cohen
• Middle East: Washington Post - Major Powers Offer Iran New Incentives - Mary Jordan and Robin Wright
• Middle East: AFP Google - Iran demands halt to US attacks in Iraq
• Middle East: AFP Google - Russia says Iranian enrichment freeze is sole demand
• Middle East: AFP Google - Powers want Iran to suspend enrichment during talks: Russia
• Middle East: Reuters - Iran to UK: Don't cross "red lines" in atomic offer
• Middle East: Reuters - Major powers agree new incentives offer to Iran - Adrian Croft and Arshad Mohammed
• Middle East: RIA Novosti - Iran warns against violation of its right to civilian nuclear energy
• Middle East: RIA Novosti - Russian equipment for Bushehr NPP in Iran - Tehran
• Middle East: UPI - Iran gets Russian nuclear plant cargo
• Middle East: IRNA - Mottaki warns European states not to cross Iran's red lines
• Middle East: IRNA - Iran-IAEA talks to resume
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Azerbaijan to build N-research reactor
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Iran urges reports on nuke arsenals
• Middle East: PRESS TV - G5+1 offers new Iran incentives
• Middle East: PRESS TV - West urges Iran to freeze enrichment
• Middle East: PRESS TV - France: We must avoid bombing Iran
• Middle East: PRESS TV - MP: Iran determined to make progress
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Iran to West: Don't cross red lines
• Middle East: PRESS TV - Clinton 'will do anything to stop Iran'

Updated - Friday, May 02, 2008

• Tri-City Herald - Interim PNNL director to stay - John Trumbo
• Longview Daily News - Contaminated sand set to move Idaho dump site - Jessie Bonner
• Twin Falls Times-News - Nuclear power is safest, cleanest choice for Idaho - Don Gillespie
• The Coloradoan - Uranium bill passes Senate on Third Reading - Jason Kosena
• Greeley Tribune - Uranium isn't worth the gamble - Matt Garrington
• Knoxville News Sentinel - Beryllium disease and genetic testing - Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel - Today's science quiz: What is this? - Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel - Retired DOE manager picked for nonprofit - Frank Munger
• Charlotte Observer - 200 attend hearing on nuclear plant - Bruce Henderson
• Newport News Daily Press - Letter: Nuclear reason - Keith Welch
• Spartanburg Herald Journal - Pros, cons of nuclear plant debated - Janet S. Spencer
• Washington Post - 'It Is a Moral Imperative'--O'Malley Outlines Necessity for New Reactor in Lusby - Christy Goodman
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Task force weighs nuclear power--Group Seeks To Limit Emissions - Thomas Content
• Toledo Blade - Ex-Besse engineer gets fine, probation - Mark Reiter
• Toledo Blade - Strickland signs 'hybrid' energy bill - Jim Provance
• Patriot-News - Thoroughness urged in NRC license review - Garry Lenton
• phillyBurbs - Are we ready for more nuclear power?
• Philadelphia Inquirer - Exelon considering ne