WERE ONLY AVAILABLE IN CHINESE.. THE OTHER BOOKLET, ENTITLED **NUCLEAR POWER STATION, WAS WRITTEN IN CHINESE AND WAS ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOURFUL PHOTOGRAPHS.
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THE LEFT WING-PAPERS CONSIDERED THE EXHIBITION A GREAT SUCCESS. IT WAS REPORTED THAT OVER 30,000 PERSONS HAD SEEN THE EXHIBITION. A SURVEY HAD BEEN CONDUCTED ON SOME 2,000 VISITORS. IT SHOWED THAT 92 PERCENT OF THE VISITORS FELT THAT THE EXHIBITION WAS INFORMATIVE AND THAT MORE SIMILAR EXHIBITIONS SHOULD BE HELD IN HONG KONG. THE HONG KONG ASSOSIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE CHINESE NUCLEAR SOCIETY EACH HOSTED A FAREWELL RECEPTION TO EXPRESS THANKS TO THOSE PERSONS WHO HAD TAKEN PART IN ORGANISING THE EXHIBITION. THE LEADER OF THE CHINESE DELEGATIONS, MR. LU GUANG-YI, NOTED THAT THE EXHIBITION AND THE VARIOUS ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES CONNECTED WITH IT HAD FOSTERED GREATER UNDERSTANDING, AND WOULD LAY A GOOD FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE COOPERATION, BETWEEN THE NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS IN CHINA AND THE ACADEMICS IN HONG KONG.
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THREE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JOINT CONFERENCE FOR THE SHELVING OF THE DAYA BAY PLANT INCLUDING MR. FUNG CHI-WOOD, MR. ANTHONY HA AND MR. LAU CHIN-SHEK, VISITED THE EXHIBITION ON 21 SEPTEMBER AND HAD A 75-MINUTE DISCUSSION WITH THE CHINESE NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY DELEGATION. SPEAKING AFTER THE MEETING, MR. FUNG CRITICISED THE EXHIBITION FOR NOT INCLUDING THE POINTS MADE AT INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR SAFETY CONFERENCE ON THE REVIEW OF THE CHERNOBYL INCIDENT. MR. HA ADDED THAT THE EXHIBITION WAS OUTDATED AND COULD NOT DISPELL THE PUBLIC WORRIES. THE LEADER OF THE CHINESE DELEGATION, MR. LU GUANG-YI RESPONDED TO THE CRITICISM BY UNDERLINING THE FACT THAT THE EXHIBITION WAS NOT AIMED AT DISPELLING PUBLIC WORRIES. INSTEAD, THE MAIN OBJECTIVE WAS TO GIVE THE PUBLIC AN OVERALL PICTURE OF THE APPLICATION OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. THE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER OF THE EXHIBITION, MR. KAN FOOK-YEE, REGRETTED THAT THE CRITICISMS WERE DIRECTED AT SUCH AN ACADEMIC EXHIBITION. HE WAS CONCERNED THAT SUCH COMMENTS WOULD DISCOURAGE MEMBERS OF PUBLIC FROM VISITING THE EXHIBITION.
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8. AS NOTED IN THE DISTRICT OFFICERS' WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORTS (SENT TO YOU BY BAG), NOT MANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WERE INTERESTED IN THE EXHIBITION. IT WAS WIDELY SEEN AS A PUBLIC RELATIONS EXERCISE TO HARDSELL THE DAYA BAY PLANT TO HONG KONG. MANY OF THOSE WHO HAD SEEN IT FOUND IT SO COMPLICATED AS TO BE BEYOND THEIR COMPREHENSION. SOME PEOPLE ALSO CRITICISED THE USE OF SIMPLIFIED CHINESE CHARACTERS WHICH WAS NOT VERY COMMON IN HONG KONG. NOTWITHSTANDING SUCH CRITICISMS THE GENERAL FEELING WAS THAT THE EXHIBITION COULD INCREASE, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, THE PUBLIC'S UNDERSTANDING OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AND THAT AN EXHIBITION WAS BETTER THAN NO EXHIBITION AT ALL. REFLECTS THE GENERAL MOOD IN HONG KONG THAT WHILE ACCEPTING THE NEED TO PROMOTE PUBLIC EDUCATION ON NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY, NOT MANY PEOPLE ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN KNOWING SUCH A 'TECHNICAL SUBJECT')..
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