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because they do not show that nuclear power would be
cheaper or because the bases for the
energy
projection
of
demand growth cannot be justified; or both?
It is submitted that if it is not proved
(a) that we need more electricity; and
(b)
nuclear energy will be cheaper,
then the
relevant
authorities
have not begun to
prove a case as to why the people of Hong Kong, the
should be forced to bear any
ultimate consumers
risk at all, minimal though it may be.
to
It is submitted that it is in the interest of the
Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Comp any
defer the signing of the material contracts with the
French and British suppliers So that the full
implications of the Chernobyl incident can be fully
understood by nuclear experts
the free world in
the light of information disclosed to them by the
Russians at the Vienna Conference (21-25 August).
It cannot be right for the Joint Venture Company to
rush forward when the whole world is waiting.