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23 October 1987
J K Gordon Esq
Nuclear Energy Department
FCO
MNS 160/3
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2 CNT1987
My dear John,
DAYA BAY NUCLEAR POWER STATION: FCO TELNO 2794 TO HONG KONG
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You have no doubt thought of this already, but it occurs to me that we really ought, to speak to the French about this. They after all are supplying the nuclear reactors, and will be sensitive, I would hope, to the implications for Framatome (not only in China) of a disaster stemming from defectively supervised foundations. But their public statements so far do not carry much conviction. It also seems to me however that it would be more effective to have the necessary quiet word in their ear in Paris or London, rather than Vienna. What do you think?
Yours sincerely
Gerald
GE Clark
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