AUG 07 86 14:29 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
Reports said the five experts disagreed with a suggestion by Canadian nuclear physicist Walter Patterson that the pressurised water reactor to be installed at Daya Bay was of the most dangerous type. They supported the development of nuclear energy.
One of them, Dr M.K. Yeung, engineering lecturer of the HK University, told the press afterwards that the pressurised water reactor to be built at Daya Bay was of one of the safer and more advanced designs in modern technology.
Miss Maria Tam, convenor of the Umelco public utilities panel, said matters relating to the safety of nuclear energy and evacuation measures were discussed at the meeting.
China Light announced that part of the feasibility study report on the Daya Bay project would be given to the Government tomorrow for distribution to Umelco members.
The South China Morning Post said China had further censored the feasibility report for "strategic" reasons. The paper said China Light had made it clear that two of the five bound volumes of the report. would not be released because of the commercially sensitive information they contained. It said it learned that certain chapters, diagrams, photographs and statistics from the three volumes to be released were also being withheld because of pressure from the Chinese authorities. They include geological information, such as details of metallurgical and mineral reserves, which are virtually state secrets.
Quoting a report in the current issue of the Pai Shing semi-monthly magazine, the HK Standard said one of the foreign companies involved in designing the Daya Bay project recommended at one stage that it should be built 400 kilometres away because its present. site was too much of an earthquake risk. The paper said although the company later agreed that the Daya Bay site was the best possible, the editor of Pai Shing pressed for the publication of secret reports on seismic studies on Daya Bay.
Many papers published the itineraries of the Leg co study trips to Europe and America.
ATV-E and some papers said Legco Unofficial Szeto Wah would try to visit the Three-Mile Island nuclear power plant during his current private visit to the US. He would not join the Legco delegation's
mission in that country.
According to Maria Tam, Legco Unofficial Hilton Cheong-Leen had promised to collect information on nuclear plants during his coming visit to Taiwan while another member would do the same during his tour
of the Philippines.
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