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Tuesday, September 16: The Legco nuclear fact-finding delegations
would reflect to the Chinese authorities HK people's worries about the Daya Bay plant during their visit to Peking this week, the media reported prominently, quoting the leader of the Legco delegation to Europe, Maria Tam.
Speaking to reporters after a closed-door meeting of the Legeo delegations yesterday, Miss Tam said that they would meet Chinese Vice-Premier Li Peng, the director of the HK and Macau Affairs Office, Ji Pengfei and officials from the nuclear authorities in Peking to discuss the Legco nuclear report.
The Legco missions would issue a position paper before their departure.
According to reports in the electronic media, a delegation member Stephen Cheong said the position paper represented the views of the two missions rather than the whole council.
Yesterday's meeting between Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services Graham Osborne and two visiting Chinese nuclear experts was accorded good coverage in the media.
Mr Osborne told reporters afterwards that he was very satisfied with the Chinese experts' assurance on the safety of the plant. He described the meeting as very useful.
He said he had suggested to the Chinese experts that HK people would be reassured if there was a real time monitor in the Daya Bay plant so that in the event of an accident, no matter how minor, HK people would be informed of it immediately.
Some papers, including Sing Tao Jih Pao, the Centre Daily News and the HK Daily News, quoted Mr Osborne as saying that a study on the safety aspect of the Daya Bay plant by the French would be completed between March and April next year and that the actual construction of the plant would not start until October next year.
A report in today's overseas edition of the People's Daily quoted the managing director of the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company, Wang Quanguo, as saying that the three main contracts and loan agreements for the Daya Bay project would be signed on September 23, Wen Wei Po reported in its front-page lead.
A number of papers reported that China Light yesterday signed agreements with the Guangdong Nuclear Power JVC and other companies concerned in Shenzhen for the building of an inter-connection power supply network linking the Daya Bay plant and HK.
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