AUG 18 '86 14:59 TIB (OOU) HK GOVT
Secretary for Economic Services John Yaxley told ATV-E's "Newsline" on Saturday that the Government would be producing a contingency plan for HK based on the accident assessment study on the Daya Bay nuclear power project in the Harwell report to deal with the. highly unlikely possibility of accidents or incidents at Daya Bay.
Legco member Conrad Lam told ATV-C's "Weekend Snapshots" that he felt that the Legco delegates would say after their return that HK people needed not have fear about the Daya Bay plant as it would be absolutely safe.
Sunday, August 3: The papers gave prominent coverage to the departure of the Legco delegation to Europe. Unofficial Maria Tam told reporters that information collected during the study mission would be compiled into a report for Legco. She said Legco would decide whether the report would be published.
The Sunday Post quoted Mr Szeto Wah as saying that residents living near the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant had told him that they were horrified about the decision to build a nuclear plant near HK.
The Sunday Standard, in a front page report, said that two studies of the background radiation monitoring programme to be run by the Royal Observatory made conflicting statement on just what the programme would be able to do.
One programme evaluating the equipment for the programme said it should be capable of detecting any leak at the Daya Bay nuclear power station, but the other appraising the programme suggested it would be unlikely to detect a reactor accident.
Both had been produced by the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell as part of a $2.1 million consultancy to advise the HK Government on the environmental aspects of the Daya Bay plant.
The papers also noted prominently the formation of a group by more than 100 people to campaign for a scientific and objective approach to the Daya Bay project.
Some papers reported that the Government was considering whether to commission a US consultancy firm, Dames and Moore, for a professional assessment of the information collected from the Legco overseas study trips and for a study on the Daya Bay site. Four Unofficials Poon Chi-fai, Cheng Hon-kwan, Chiu Hin-kwong and Ho Sai-chu had an informal contact with representatives of the company on Saturday.
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