GINAGS
Mr Layden
DAYA BAY
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12 TER NCS
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DATE: 10 September 1986
1.
We spoke briefly about the exchange on Daya Bay at
Mr Renton's lunch for the Governor and ExCo yesterday. I should set down the main points in more detail: Mr Westmacott will be producing a record in due course.
2.
Miss Tam made three specific points about Daya Bay which
need consideration and action:
(i) She referred to the work of the consultants from
Harwell. She said it was important that they should go
on site and demonstrate that they were looking at the
specific features of the Daya Bay project. In general she hoped they were taking their work sufficiently
seriously. Mr Renton and Dr
Dr Wilson pointed out that
Harwell were working as consultants to the Hong Kong Government, which would be taking the lead in defining their terms of reference. I added that in meetings with
the Department of Enegy and the UKAEA we had left them in no doubt about the political significance of their work on Daya Bay and our hope that this should be given
high priority.
on
the
(ii) Miss Tam expressed the hope that the IAEA documentation lessons to be learnt from Chernobyl could be
passed to the Hong Kong Government. Mr Renton said that the department would check what could be made available. and pass on all available IAEA material. The Chernobyl post-mortem document was very thick and the catalogue of human error which it contained would not necessarily be
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