to
Daya Ba Your officials are arranging briefing, in Hong
Kong and in Europe, of Hong Kong opinion-formers
reassure them of the safety record and features of the
French PWR design which will be used.
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3.
For our part, we are encouraging the Hong Kong
people there Government to demonstrate to the population that it is
actively seeking to inform itself, in order to reassure
the
them about ahl safety implications of a project with
which it is itself indirectly associated.
A senior Hong
Kong
Government official will be in Europe soon to
discuss such matters as monitoring, contingency planning
and the relationship
nearby urban communities.
between reactor management and
Me will visit a
power
station in France of the type which is to be built at Daya Bay and which is
4.
The Governor has asked us
to recognise that there
:
will be a price to pay for the continuation of the
project in terms of confidence among the people of Hong
Kong; and that this price will be
substantially raised
during the 1990s, when the station is commissioned. He
has invited Ministers to consider whether they should
point out to the Chinese Government the political
benefits that could be obtained in Hong Kong if the
Chinese were to decide now to move the project from Daya
Bay or to convert it to a thermal station.
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