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indirectly associated.
A senior Hong Kong
Kong Government
official
[will be in
Departments
this week
Europe seen]
to discuss such matters
monitoring, contingency planning and the
is
visiting
our
as
relationship
between local
reactor
and management
nearby
urban*
communities.
will He
also visit а
station power
in
France of the type which is to be built at Daya Bay and
which
is
population.
similarly placed near
а large centre
of
The Governor has asked us to recognise that there
5.
will be
pay
for
the
continuation
He
to price a
of the
project in terms of confidence among
among the people of Hong
Kong; and that this price will be substantially raised
during the 1990s, when the station, is commissioned.
has invited Ministers to consider whether they should
point out to the Chinese Government the political
be could
obtained in Hong Kong if
Chinese were to decide now to move the project from Daya
Bay or to convert it to a thermal station.
benefits
that
the
6.
Such a step would of course have the most
far-reaching implications for our relationships with the
Chinese and French governments,
as well as for British
commercial interests. There would be wider consequences
too in terms of
perceptions
in
this country of
the
Government's attitude to nuclear power, and of the risks
associated with it.
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