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Ming Pao reported that the anti-nuclear activisits had decided to compromise. They would hand over the signatures to Ma Fubang of the nuclear power bureau, but insisted that the venue for the handover
should be the State Council.
In HK, five groups late last night issued a statement in support of the anti-nuclear joint conference. The statement said the Chinese Government was not respecting public opinion in HK by failing to arrange for the HK delegation to see top leaders.
On the Harwell report, Wan Wei Po quoted two officials of the Guangdong Nuclear Joint Venture Company as saying that the Phase I report was compiled on the basis of some existing nuclear power stations already operating in Europe, without having regard to the actual situation in HK. They disclosed that not too long ago, the Chinese side had provided the British authorities with detailed specific information on Daya Bay and it was believed that the second report would be based on the new data.
In a despatch from London, Wen Wei quoted a writer for a UK Atomatic Energy Authority publication as saying that work on the Phase II report would start early next month. Wah Kiu quoted a UKAEA spokesman as saying that the Phase I report was based on preliminary findings and had no regard to the specific conditions in HK. Moreover, at that time the Chernobyl accident had not happened.
In an interview with Ming Pao, Financial Secretary Piers Jacobs said that it would not be appropriate to make public the Lazard Brothers report as it contained a lot of confidential commercial information. Asked about reported plans by some Legco members to invoke the powers and privileges ordinance to secure the release of the report, Mr Jacobs said this was a constitutional question for the Attorney General.
Unofficial Andrew Wong told the HK Economic Journal that invoking the ordinance to obtain information about Daya Bay might lead to a conatitutional crisis.
Quoting sources, ATV said the reports by the Legco fact-finding missions on nuclear energy would be compiled by the end of this month and published before the scheduled signing of the Daya Bay contracts between Chine and France next month.
The sources said many Unofficials felt that it would be meaningless to publish the report after the Daya Bay contracts had been signed and therefore a decision was made to complete the report
earlier.
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