Updated: June 7, 2001                               Nuclear waste: an Achilles' heel  In 1992, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) was asked to investigate the technical and institutional options for the future of nuclear power.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Look for more wellhead-to-power plant deals Generators, traders realize they must control gas  Reserve-rich firms are targets                                                            Which households buy green energy? People will pay more for green  Interested parties rarely seek out green  Survey pinpoints 22 million-household market                                                         Farm-fresh biopower Biomass enjoys unique consortium of support  Co-firing with coal offers near-term potential  Land conflicts may be problematic                                                   BPA sees October power contract rates up over 150% go to full story...   DOE review finds more natural gas off-limits to drilling in Rockies go to full story...   ESAI: natural gas supply may overshoot demand in 2002 go to full story...   NRG Energy buys Vattenfall's interests in three South American projects go to full story...   Lisbon converted to gas go to full story...   Justice investigating AES, Williams for antitrust violations go to full story...    Conectiv sells telecom business, stake in plant go to full story...   Reliant urges FERC to drop California price caps go to full story...   San Jose approves controversial plant go to full story...   Pacific Gas and Electric says shouldn't pay to avert blackouts go to full story...    To view all of today's Executive News headlines,  click here                               ? Copyright ? 2001 - FT Energy, All Rights Reserved. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.    Market Brief   Wednesday, June 6 Stocks Close Change % Change DJIA 11,070.24 (105.6) -0.94% DJ 15 Util. 372.65 (9.1) -2.37% NASDAQ 2,217.73 (15.93) -0.71% S&P 500 1,270.03 (13.5) -1.05%     Market Vols Close Change % Change AMEX (000) 111,256 (7,350.0) -6.20% NASDAQ (000) 1,772,162 (70,677.0) -3.84% NYSE (000) 1,062,316 (53,401.0) -4.79%     Commodities Close Change % Change Crude Oil (Jul) 27.72 (0.52) -1.84% Heating Oil (Jul) 0.7664 (0.003) -0.40% Nat. Gas (Henry) 3.801 (0.091) -2.34% Palo Verde (Jul) 173.00 (49.00) -22.07% COB (Jul) 160.00 (45.00) -21.95% PJM (Jul) 76.50 (5.50) -6.71%     Dollar US $ Close Change % Change Australia $  1.937 (0.026) -1.32% Canada $   1.525 (0.005) -0.33% Germany Dmark  2.306 0.011  0.48% Euro   0.8474 (0.007) -0.77% Japan ?en  120.40 0.000  0.00% Mexico NP 9.12 (0.020) -0.22% UK Pound   0.7184 0.0100  1.41%     Foreign Indices Close Change % Change Arg MerVal 439.19 (3.71) -0.84% Austr All Ord. 3,355.20 0.70  0.02% Braz Bovespa 15328.83 (65.99) -0.43% Can TSE 300  8194.39 (64.43) -0.78% Germany DAX 6192.44 (49.69) -0.80% HK HangSeng 13253.39 0.00  0.00% Japan Nikkei 225  13174.84 (16.17) -0.12% Mexico IPC  6790.98 118.63  1.78% UK FTSE 100 5,901.50 (21.00) -0.35%       Source:  Yahoo! & TradingDay.com   	                            Advertise on Energy Insight         	  	


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