SEP 18 '86 11:33 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
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Several papers reported that about 40 DB members would issue a joint statement today calling for a special Legco meeting to debate the Daya Bay issue.
Commercial Radio, ATV-English and a few papers quoted the vice-minister of China's Science and Technology Commission, Wu Mingyu, as saying that China had done a lot of studies on nuclear accidents and on safety measures following the Chernobyl disaster.
He believed that the Daya Bay plant would be the safest nuclear power station in the world, Ching Po said.
n Radio-3's "Letter from HK" yesterday, commentator Bill Lowe praised Legco member Martin Lee for his performance in the Daya Bay debate.
The HK Standard reported prominently that anti-nuclear activists are considering a 30-second "lights off" protest on the night the Daya Bay contracts are signed.
The KK Economic Journal suggested that there should be a plan to replace equipment at the Daya Bay plant that had aged. Otherwise, the paper said, worries over accidents would shake the confidence of many people here in the territory.
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The Express described the Daya Bay lasue as a test of how public opinion was treated by the HK and Peking authorities.
A Centre Daily News commentary said the anti-nuclear activists were behaving like the "Red Guards" who suspected and opposed to everything they did not like.
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