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Convenor of the Legco group Wong Po-yan, was quoted as saying that the group was basically satisfied with the contents of the report on contingency planning.
Deputy convenor of the Legco group Chung Pui-lam, was quoted as saying that the group needed more time to study the report.
A managing director of the HK Nuclear Investment Company, Sir Jack Cater, was quoted as saying that it was a wise move to prepare for a contingency plan.
Sing Tao Jih Pao reported that the HKNIC yesterday issued a statement welcoming the report.
Wen Wei Po said in a short commentary that those who were concerned about nuclear safety should study the report in details.
Yik Chun of Tin Tin Daily News said that the report would put HK
people's heart at ease.
ease. The writer said that those people who planned emigration because of the Daya Bay plant should study the report on contingency planning.
In the English press, both the SCM Post and the HK Standard reported that the Government would soon hold talks with China on contingency measures to cope with accidents at Daya Bay.
The Standard. quoted the Secretary for, Economic Services, Anson. Chan as saying that both Peking and HK were anxious to start talks to reach an agreement on how to co-operate in implementing contingency
arrangements.
On the Harwell report itself, the SCM Post pointed out that it had ruled out the need for any drastic emergency measures for HK, including evacuation.
John Wilson, a PAS for Economic Services, told ATV-Diamond's "Newsplus" that there would not be any difficulties in coming to satisfactory arrangements on cross-border information on the Daya Bay plant after 1997.
The convenor of the Legco ad hoc group on the Daya Bay project, Wong Po-yan, told RTHK's "Pentaprism" that it would be impossible for the Chinese authorities not to release details of accidents at the Daya Bay plant just for the sake of "face saving."
He pointed out that HK could use its equipment to detect the level of radiation and that if anything went wrong, HK should have known by a few minutes.