A round-up of media reports and commentaries
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Thursday, May 12 A HK Economic Journal reporter wrote that the possibility of a major accident at the Daya Bay plant had been underestimated in the report on contingency planning.
The reporter, Lee Kwan-to, said that the contingency report had not increased people's confidence on the Daya Bat plant. Instead, it had cast more worries on the long-term safety aspects of the plant.
Sunday, May 15 - Sing Tao Wan Pao published a feature on the safety aspects of the Daya Bay plant and a brief account of the report on contingency planning.
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Monday, May 16 In view of a higher rate of cancer cases reported in the surrounding areas of nuclear plants in Britain, president of
the Federation of Medical Societies of HK Dr C.Y. Huang told RTHK' S "City Forum" yesterday that the HK Government should set up a nuclear safety organisation to monitor the long-term effects of nuclear pollution to HK's environment and the situation of cancer caused by nuclear radiation, the media reported.
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His remark was carried in a number of papers as an inside-page
Some reports quoted Dr Huang as saying that teams of specialists should be set up in hospitals to deal with victims in the event of an accident at the Daya Bay plant.
He said that the Harwell report on contingency plans did not deal with accurately with the medical problems which would arise if there
was a nuclear disaster.
Three other speakers, including an anti-nuclear activist Fung Chi-wood, a lecturer at the Lingnan college and Legco member Lee Yu-tai, said that the Harwell report was not comprehensive enough. They called for the setting up of a monitoring body in relation to the Daya Bay plant.
The HK Daily News, in its Monday column, carried a number of articles on the Harwell report.
Friday, May 20 Chinese authorities were considering whether to allow a group of international environmentalists inspect the Daya Bay nuclear power plant site next month, according to the SCM Post.
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