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about delaying construction or moving it further from
Hong Kong?
Thank you.
A.
Vice Premier Li Peng is an expert on nuclear energy
I would like to ask him to answer this question and I
myself will just take this opportunity to have a smoke.
(Laughter).
Well this is really my baby, my special field.
Following the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the Soviet
Union like other countries in the world China has also
been greatly concerned about it. The technology we are
now adopting is totally different than that of the
Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.
There is a guarantee of the safety of the nuclear
technology in question because it has been in operation
for quite a long time. In fact this technology is widely
used in European nuclear power stations. You may know
that 70% of French nuclear power stations have this
technology. However this does not mean we do not attach
importance to this question. On the contrary we are
going to adopt a series of strong measures to ensure the
safety right from the design stage, through to the
installation and operations of the nuclear power
stations as rightly reported in the press this questions
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