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2. Mr. Yaxley said that despite rumours to the contrary. it was HKG's belief that China was still wholly committed to building a nuclear power station at Daya Bay. The Hong Kong Government had no responsibility for or control over the building of the plant. The Guangdong Nuclear Investment Corporation held a 75% share in the JVC. The HKG's only influence was in relation to CLP and liong Kong NIC on which Boards there was some Government representation.
3. Mr. Yaxley saw the HKG's strategy as being (i) to encourage the JVC, CLP, the Chinese and the French to be more open about the plant and provide the people of Hong Kong with more information and (ii) to ensure that adequate contingency plans were made and the risks of an accident and its effects on Hong Kong fully assessed. He saw the results of the consultancy with the Authority as being very important and pointed out that KG was under intense pressure to publish various reports submitted by the Authority to help allay people's fears. lle confirmed, however, that it was not generally known that some of the reports had already been received in Hong Kong.
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Dr. Wade saw two difficulties from the Authority's point of view: (a) the consultancy had been drawn up before the Chernobyl accident and the HKG now appeared to want more work carried out than was provided for in the consultancy agreement, and (b) the reports were written in technical language and not suitable for publication for the layman's consumption. If they were to be made generally available they would need to be rewritten.
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Mr. Yaxley acknowledged that the consultancy agreement was inadequate to meet the HKG's present needs and confirmed that the HKG would be prepared to provide more funds for an expanded agreement.
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There was discussion as to the HKG's exact requirements. Dr. Nixon took the view that the HKG should be concentrating on providing the people of Hong Kong with good contingency planning and that their first priority would be knowing what the environmental impacts would be in the event of an accident at Daya Bay.
He surmised that if a full probabilistic risk assessment was carried out, including statistics about the likelihood of an accident occurring then, given the situation in Hong Kong described by fir Yaxly earlier, the people would not find the statistics reassuring, however unlikely they
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