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SES John Yaxley told the paper that in order to establish a comprehensive contingency plan for HK, the Government hoped to obtain a copy of this report and send it to the Atomic Energy Authority for
reference.
In a despatch from Dunkirk, France, Sing Pao reported in its front-page lead that numerous accidents had occurred at the two nuclear power stations in France which a Legco delegation was due to visit.
The paper said news about the accidents were revealed by experts despite efforts by the French authorities to cover up.
Radio-3 and Sing Pao reported that Legco Unofficial Martin Lee returned to HK yesterday after a week-long private visit to Britain. He had visited a nuclear power plant in Lancashire. He said he would brief his Umelco colleagues before talking to the press, Radio-1 and Sing Pao reported.
Some media reports said Legco Unofficials had expressed different
on the feasibility study released on Monday.
Wong Po-yan said the Daya Bay project was acceptable. Daniel Tse said that there was no apparent need for evacuation plans. Conrad Lam felt that the project should be shelved because there were no evacuation and contingency measures.
In an interview with TVB, senior Polytechnic lecturer in Applied Science S.Y.Lau said the feasibility study was a carefully and thoroughly compiled report. But some important information, such as meteorological considerations, was not included.
Mr Lau contended that information on doubts expressed by the Atomic Energy Authority on pressurised water reactors as mentioned in the feasibility study should be released.
Commenting on a report that Chins and France would sign formal contracts for the project a month earlier than scheduled, Fung Chi-wood of the anti-nuclear coalition said he would not go to Peking to reflect Hk people's views if the report was true.
Urbco member Kwan Lim-ho yesterday confirmed that he and about 100
individuals would launch a campaign in support of the construction of the Daya Bay plant, the HK Economic Journal and Sing Tao Jih Pao reported.
Yesterday's Sing Tao Wan Pao and some papers today said the
Government had set up a working group to promote education on nuclear energy as proposed in a report by Harwell.
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