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HK starting September 12. The exhibition was jointly organised by the Chinese Nuclear Academy and HK's Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology. During the period of exhibition, nuclear experts from China would also hold a number of public seminars on nuclear energy.
In separate reports, the papers noted that two Chinese University lecturers said worries about the Daya Bay project might prompt more people to emigrate, or at least those who had already gone abroad would think twice before returning to HK.
Convenor of the Joint Conference for the Shelving of the Daya Bay Project, Fung Chi-wood, told ATV-E's "Newsline" that he and members of the group to Peking would try to convince senior Chinese officials that HK people were very easily disturbed with minor accidents, and such psychological weakness would be harmful to the prosperity of HK.
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In an editorial, the South China Morning/wrote that the Chinese Government viewed the Daya Bay nuclear power plant as a fait accompli and the worries of the people of HK as groundless.
In contrast, the editorial added, the project had become a public relations nightmare for the HK Government, whose senior officials had ignored a fundamental dictum of all public relations activities: never make a statement which cannot be substantiated.
Wen Wei Po in an editorial disagreed with a suggestion that Legco fact-finding missions were a waste of taxpayers' money. The missions were necessary to get first-hand information from overseas experts. Legco Unofficials had fully shown their sense of responsibility in deciding to launch such missions.
Sunday, August 17: The media today gave prominent coverage to the meeting between anti-nuclear lobbyists and William Stones of China Light.
Mr Stones told the group that China Light would not pull out of the Daya Bay project and that the contract would be signed in the middle of September and would be approved by the Chinese Government in early October.
He stressed that China Light had not considered turning the Daya Bay plant into a coal-fired one because nuclear power would definitely be much cheaper than coal.
In prominent headlines, some papers noted that over a 20-year period of operation, $33 billion would be saved by using nuclear energy to generate electricity.
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