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Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po commented favourably on the
establishment of the committee.
Ta Kung said that HK people should voice their views on the safety of the nuclear power plant through the committee.
Wen Wei believed that the committee would work in a pragmatic way and would play a positive role in monitoring the safe operation of the power plant.
Along similar lines, Yik Chun of Tin Tin Daily News said that the committee carried great implications in safeguarding the safety of the power plant and in increasing HK people's confidence.
Sing Pao hoped that the committee should do more to increase HK people's knowledge of nuclear power so as to remove their worries.
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Sunday, August 14 Legco member Stephen Cheong said that the consultative committee set up in relation to the Daya Bay plant was a good beginning for both places to exchange views on the project, several papers reported, quoting a HK China News Service dispatch.
Wah Kiu Yat Po said in an editorial that the setting up of the consultative committee would mean that there would be another channel for people to express their views on the safety aspects of the nuclear plant.
Monday, August 15
Radioactive waste from the Daya Bay nuclear power plant was to be stored on the site for at least the first 10 years, the SCM Post reported prominently.
Top officials of the project had yet to decide on how to dispose of the waste in the long-term.
HK's most senior executive at Daya Bay, William Stones, said that the Guangdong Nuclear Power JVC had ruled out dumping the nuclear waste into the sea,
But the utility's 15-member executive committee remained undecided on the permanent disposal of the potentially hazardous
uranium waste.
In a separate report, the paper said that the Government was now working on a comprehensive contingency plan for HK to deal with possible mishaps at Daya Bay, based on the findings of the Harwell report.
Two papers commented on the setting up of the Nuclear Safety Consultative Committee.