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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE IAEA EXAMINING TWO CONVENTIONS: ONE ON PROMPT
INFORMATION ABOUT NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS AND THE OTHER ON EMERGENCY AID
FOR NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS. HE SAID THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE
TOWARDS THESE TWO CONVENTIONS WAS POSITIVE. JI PENGFEI HOSTED A
BANQUET FOR THE GROUP ON 20 SEPTEMBER.
6. A REPORT IN THE OVERSEAS PEOPLE'S DAILY OF 22 SEPTEMBER GAVE
MORE DETAIL ON THE GROUP'S DISCUSSIONS WITH THE NUCLEAR ENERGY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT OINGHUA UNIVERSITY. THE INSTITUTE DIRECTOR,
WANG DAZHONG, SAID THAT PERSONNEL FOR DAYA BAY WOULD BE TRAINED AT
THE INSTITUTE. DESMOND LEE YU-TAI SAID THAT AFTER THIS VISIT HE FELT
THAT CHINA'S NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY WOULD REASSURE PEOPLE. FEW PEOPLE IN
HONG KONG UNDERSTOOD THE NUCLEAR POWER STATION, INCLUDING HIMSELF
BEFORE THIS VISIT. HONG KONG PEOPLE'S WORRIES WERE GENUINELY FELT.
SIMPLY REPEATING PROPAGANDA WOULD NOT ALLAY THEM. HE HOPED THAT HONG
KONG PEOPLE COULD PARTICIPATE IN THE ADVISORY GROUP. ALLEN LEE SAID
THAT WHAT HAD STRUCK HIM MOST ABOUT HIS VISIT WAS THE AMOUT OF
PREPARATORY WORK CHINA HAD DONE IN NUCLEAR ENERGY, IN PARTICULAR FOR
THE DAYA BAY NUCLEAR POWER STATION. HE CONSIDERED THAT EVEN MORE
HONG KONG PEOPLE SHOULD VISIT THE NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
IN ORDER TO GAIN A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF THE LEVEL OF NUCLEAR
TECHNOLOGY IN CHINA.
HOWE
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