GINAGS
Mr Layden
DAYA BAY
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FROM: C O HUM
DATE: 10 September 1986
RECEIVED IN REGBTRY
27 OCT 1986
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REGISTRY
Action Takén.
We spoke
briefly about the exchange
Daya
Bay
at
1.
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 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.
(ii) Miss Tam expressed the hope that the IAEA documentation
on the lessons to be learnt from Chernobyl could
could be
passed to the Hong Kong Government. Mr Renton said that
Renton 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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