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A round-up of media reports and commentaries
on the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station
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Saturday, October 11 - Writing in Ming Pao Evening News, Lee Fong said that the safety of the Daya Bay plant should be assessed again following the "missing bars" incident. While saying that the performance of the JVC was unreliable, the construction of the nuclear plant would give rise to more worries.
In his article published in the HK Economic Journal today, Luk Shun-tim said that a number of questions relating to the construction incident had remained unanswered. The crux of the issue now was who should be responsible for determining that whether the people of HK should take the risk resulting from the errors.
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Sunday, November 1 The "missing bars" incident at the Daya Bay plant had revealed problems in the management and quality control of the plant, the media reported today, quoting the deputy director of the Chinese National Nuclear Safety Administration, Shi Guangchang -
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Speaking to reporters in Peking, Mr Shi said that the NNSA would carry out another check on the management and control systems of the JVC next month.
Sing Pao quoted Mr Shi as saying that there was no need to hire independent consultants to assess remedial measures proposed by the French company. He added that the NNSA would agree with a suggestion to set up a China-HK advisory body on the nuclear plant. However, the NNSA would not agree that representatives from HK should be included in a supervisory body to be set up.
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A few papers quoted the convenor of the Legco ad hoc group on the Daya Bay project, Wong Po-yan, as saying that it was acceptable that no independent consultants would be hired to assess the remedial
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In a related development, the media reported that a member of the West German Parliament now visiting HK, Eckhard Stratmann, had said that the mistake in the construction of the plant was a serious one and should a similar mistake happen in West Germany, the contractors work licences would be suspended.
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Tuesday, November 3 Some papers reported that one of the five new members elected to the Politburo's Standing Committee, Li Peng, said in Peking yesterday that the "missing bare" incident should not have happened. He added that HK could set up an advisory body on the Daya Bay plant.