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CLP/Hong Kong need to ensure energy
supplies from early '90s onwards, but constrained by real estate, and concerned
to build up links with China.
- CLP began contacts with Guangdong Power Corporation to supply "surplus" electricity into the economic zone of Shenzhen;
the first hint of a suggestion that
Guangdong could be the site of a PWR
serving both the Province and Hong Kong;
tentative soundings between CLP/Guangdong
PC, and the UK provided CLP with "experts"
who could provide a technical input that
CLP themselves lacked;
growing "political contacts" across the
Hong Kong/China border.
At this stage, the running was made with
considerable imagination by CLP, notably
under their Chairman, Lord Kadoorie and
his CLP manager, Bill Stones.
UK had to rein back "scientific enthusiasts"
with no nuclear programme under way, UK
had engineers/scientists with little to
do, and rather less commercial acumen, who had notions of joining with Westinghouse
to do "the first Sizewell" in Southern
China.
But even so, there was a more
serious impediment to such an approach,
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