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probably the largest in the world. The 5th and 6th units which were commissioned last year are the same design as those for Daya Bay. I had a series of most useful discussions with officials of Electriaté de France who

are the operators of the plant and who are providing technical support and other services to the Joint Venture Company in Shenzhen. As in the United Kingdom the talks centred around the relationship between design safety and emergency planning, both on and off site.

As you will appreciate and as I told you before

I left I have not come back with a detailed plan for

dealing in Hong Kong with the effects of an incident at Daya Bay. I have, however, collected a considerable amount of information which will, following further analysis and discussion with our consultants enable us

to develop suitable principles governing the

determination of appropriate countermeasures to be taken by the Hong Kong Government as part of its overall

responsibilities for civil contingency planning.

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