OCT 16 '87 16:36 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
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However, it added that it was important that fear did not lead to panic when the project was still four to five years away from completion.
Wednesday, October 14 - Twenty-two Legco members who attended a meeting of the Legco ad hoc group on the Daya Bay project yesterday agreed unanimously to put forward four proposals to the Government in relation to the "missing bars" incident at the nuclear plant, the media reported prominently.
According to the convenor of the Legco group, Wong Fo-yan, the group wanted the Government to pursue the question of responsibility relating to the incident and to come up with measures to prevent similar incidents in future.
It would ask the HK Government and the HK Nuclear Investment Company to inform the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company not to resume work on the foundation layer in question until the proposed remedial measures were found to be feasible.
The group agreed that foreign nuclear experts should be asked to study the feasibility of the remedial measures. It also asked the HK Government to review its link with the Legco group and to inform the group all information on the nuclear project as soon as possible.
In its back-page lead, Tin Tin Daily News quoted reliable sources as saying that proposals by the Legco group would be fruitless as remedial action would definitely be started within a week.
Some papers, including Ta Kung Pao, quoted Mr Wong as saying that his group had no power to supervise the construction of the Daya Bay plant.
Meanwhile, Secretary for Economic Services Anson Chan, who also represented the HK Government in the HKNIC as a director of the board, told a press conference yesterday that the Government was treating the
incident as a serious matter.
She dismissed a suggestion that the incident had been covered up. She said that she would ask for an explanation on who was responsible for the errors at a board meeting of the HKNIC tomorrow.
Some media reports quoted Mrs Chan as saying that the HK Government would accept the remedial measures if they fully satisfied the original safety design.
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