SEP 05 '86 13:44 TIB(OQU) HK GOVT
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In other developments, 12 representatives of the Joint Conference for the Shelving of the Daya Bay Project yesterday petitioned Government House urging the Government to make public the confidential Harwell report dealing with potential risks involved in the project.
The group also asked the Government to take action so that the final Daya Bay contracts would not be signed before the HK Government had explained clearly to the public all information relating to the safety of the plant.
The anti-nuclear lobby submitted seven questions relating to the project to the Government and hoped to obtain written replies from the Government before the end of this month.
Wen Wei Po said it made enquiries with the Government yesterday about recent revelations about the Daya Bay project based on confidential Government documents and the reporter was referred to a Government statement issued on July 29.
In a separate report, the paper quoted Dr M.K.Yeung, engineering lecturer of the HKU, as saying that the concept of risk ratio mentioned in the Harwell report had different meaning with probability.
He said the chance of a serious accident at the plant was extremely small.
Commercial Radio-English and Sing Tao Jih Pao reported that an expert working at the Guangdong Energy Techno-Economic Research Centre, Liu Weixian, pointed out that Guangdong might need another nuclear power plant by the year 2000 because the Daya Bay plant could not meet growing electricity demand in the province. He noted that three quarters of the power generated from the Daya Bay plant would be destined for HK.
An anti-nuclear activist, Anthony Ha, said he did not think a second nuclear plant was needed. He felt that China should move the Daya Bay plant further away from HK and should take more power generated from the plant if neede arose.
Cheng Yiu-tong of the left-wing HK Federation of Trade Unions said that they were planning to set up a concerned group on the Daya Bay project to solicit workers' views on the issue, some papers, including Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po, reported.
Mr Cheng said the unions would play the role of providing nuclear knowledge to the workers.
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