SEP 05 '86 15:00 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
According to some papers, the leader of a 30-member delegation of local politicians, Ng Shiu-pang, said on their return from Peking last night that the authorities in the Chinese capital were considering setting up an advisory committee which would include HK residents to monitor the operation of the Daya Bay plant.
Mr Ng said that they were told that a contingency plan for accidents at the plant was being studied by some 300 Chinese acientists.
The papers and the overseas edition of the People's Daily gave good coverage to the visit to Peking by a group of HK people who asked that the Daya Bay issue be viewed scientifically.
The group was briefed by some Chinese nuclear experts on the safety aspect of the plant.
In other developments, Legco Unofficial Lee Yu-tai said yesterday that a special Legco session to discuss the Daya Bay issue was necessary before the signing of the Daya Bay contracts.
He told reportere after attending a public function that the controversy involving Legco Unofficials Martin Lee and Maria Tam was healthy.
Ming Pao quoted Mr Lee as saying that it was a responsible attitude for a Legco member to name the person he or she intended to criticise.
The Oriental Daily reported that more than 30 DB members from eight districts would issue a joint statement today in support of Martin Lee's proposal for a special sitting of Legco on the Daya Bay
issue.
In its front-page lead, the HK Daily News said it had obtained a report by a US firm of consultants on the Chernobyl lesson which suggested that a serious accident such as the one at Chernobyl could happen at nuclear power stations in the US and elsewhere, including Daya Bay. The report said contingency plans should not be confined to areas within 50 miles of nuclear plants.
In a prominent front-page report, Sing Tao Jih Pao quoted Civic Association chairman Hilton Cheong-Leen as saying that the association's executive committee would meet this afternoon to discuss a draft letter to Chinese leaders on the Daya Bay project.
The letter, to be sent to Chinese leaders Zhao Ziyang, Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang, would propose that the plant be moved to a site farther away from HK. If this was not possible, it was suggested that the plant use other forms of energy to generate electricity.
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