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- Power Utilities form company to oversee nuclear plants. Atlantic Council policy paper expresses group's support for nuclear. ASME report calls nuclear plants essential to meet terms of Kyoto Protocol. NRC picks eight sites for pilot oversight program. AmerGen considering Vermont Yankee purchase possibilities. Opinions differ on DOE facility regulation. Changes in NRC regulations proposed for licenses renewals. NRC announces actions on regulations, policies. GPU, Inc.once again posts "for sale" sign at Oyster Creek. - Operations The Nuclear News interview: President of new management company discusses banding together in Wisconsin and Minnesota. GAO assesses the NRC risk-informed effort. - International U.K. study: Cancer death risk no greater for Pu workers. Organization files complaints against BNFL advertisements. Good, bad, and pending news for Czech Republic's Temelin. Krasnoyarsk loses out to Mayak for reprocessing in Russia. Lianyungang constuction to begin this year, under protocol between Russia and China. IAEA has preparations under way to trample on millennium bug. Incedent of transport cask contamination reported in France. Fourth waste return shipment on its way from France to Japan. Dudchenko to follow Nigmatullin at Ukraine's Energoatom. - Waste Management DOE: We'll own spent fuel, but we won't move it. Barton: Yucca Mountain needs higher appropriation in DOE budget. State, DOE, DOJ sign hew Hanford tank cleanup agreement. Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission head let go, activities cut. Licensing criteria chnges proposed for Yucca Mountain. Contracts for cleanup at DOE sites awarded. - Research NRC: Safety assessment results on BNL's High Flux Beam Reactor are positive. DOE's Office of Oversight studies internal review of ANL-West contamination incident. Florida State University monitors Cuba's reactor. LLNL: Plutonium in nerby park poses no hazard. - Isotopes & Radiation Treadmill plus MPI can help spot heart disease risk. Brachy therapy can benefit pets with cancer as much as thier owners. NDT structural exam proves Titanic shistles can be heard again. - Fuel AIT's report on fire at Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant released - Industry Westinghouse sale to MK, BNFL altered; other business developments. Stone & Webster sets up shop at ComEd; other contracts. - Standards ANS standards published, approved; comments requested.