JUL 16 '86 17:01 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
WIR for the week ending 11.7.86 from_DO(C&W)
P.1
(a) Daya Bay Nuclear Plant
This remained a hot issue and was commonly discussed by different classes of people. A MAC Chairman who is active also in the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union reported that the Joint Committee for the anti- construction of the Daya Bay Nuclear Plant would organise a large scale signatory campaign on 13 July at the entrances of every MTR station (a sample of the signature form is attached). A few secondary school teachers said that Szeto-wah was working very hard to rally the teachers against the Nuclear Project. Further, the Science and Technology Association (?) ( at Je too will organize a forum on Saturday to discuss the Nuclear Plant. Esther Chan, a DB member, is also one of the organisers.
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NG Che-keung(), a ML (C) AC member, was under the conviction that China would do whatever she liked with the project and there would be no use discussing it.because she had already injected a large sum of money into the project.
Some Architects shared the same view because contracts to build the plant had already been apparently signed and land formation is well underway
Another ML(C) AC member, Cheung Wong Sie-yuen (ikk g . expressed fear over the safety of the Plant and would emigrate to America should the plant be set up.
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Many other contacts expressed their worries in the
following aspect:-
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Despite all safety measures applied to the
plant, the way to manage such a potentially hazardous technology would be a problem. Vincent Ko said that if PRC could not run a hotel properly as in the case of some Beijing hotels, one could not expect their expertise to manage a nuclear plant.
Chinese Government was sending her scientists to France and Britain hopefully to acquire the necessary skill to operate a nuclear plant. Our contacts doubted if these scientists could obtain adequate experience and technology through such crash courses, in particular on accident management.
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