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TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1990

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RISK ASSESSMENT REPORT ON DAYA BAY RELEASED

POWER

A VERY PEOPLE IN

HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH ACCIDENTS AT THE NUCLEAR STATION BEING BUILT AT DAYA BAY IN CHINA ARE MUCH LOWER, BY WIDE MARGIN, THAN OTHER RISKS ENCOUNTERED BY HONG EVERYDAY LIFE, ACCORDING TO AN INDEPENDENT RISK ASSESSMENT.

A

KONG

THE UNITED NUCLEAR POWER OPERATING AROUND POSE AN

REPORT ON THE RISK ASSESSMENT, MADE BY SUMMARY KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY, POINTS OUT THAT MANY PLANTS SIMILAR TO THAT BEING BUILT AT DAYA BAY ARE THE WORLD AND ARE CONSIDERED BY THE RELEVANT AUTHORITIES TO ACCEPTABLY SMALI, RISK TO THEIR SURROUNDING POPULATION.

AIMED

THE ASSESSMENT INCLUDES AN ANALYSIS OF THE PLANT SYSTEM, AT EVALUATING ACCIDENT PROBABILITIES AND POSSIBLE HEALTH RISKS IN HONG KONG.

THE REPORT SAYS THE RESULTS OF THE PLANT ANALYSIS ARE GENERALLY CONSISTENT WITH DETAILED STUDIES OF SIMILAR LEACTOR TYPES PERFORMED BY OTHERS.

ARE

"THIS,

AND THE FACT THAT NO OBVIOUS PLANT-SPECIFIC WEAKNESSES THAT THE APPARENT FROM THE PRESENT WORK, PROVIDES AN ASSURANCE

OF DAYA BAY

THOSE

OTHER WILL BE IN LINE WITH

MANY RISKS PLANT PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR (PWR) PLANTS OF THE SAME DESIGN," IT SAYS.

COMMENTING ON

FOR ECONOMIC THE REPORT, THE DEPUTY SECRETARY

FINDINGS SERVICES, MRS ELIZABETH BOSHER, SAID TODAY THE CONSULTANTS' WERE

ARB WEAKNESSES THAT NO OBVIOUS PLANT SPECIFIC REASSURING IN

OF HONG REVEALED BY THE STUDY AND THAT THE LIKELIHOOD OF THE HEALTH

MUCH KONG PEOPLE BEING AFFfected by ACCIDENTS AT DAYA BAY IS INDEED

ENCOUNTERED BY LOWER. BY A VERY LARGE MARGIN, THAN ANALOGOUS RISKS HONG KONG PEOPLE IN EVERYDAY LIFE.

CONCERN ABOUT

CONSTRUCTION

THE

OF

"THEY SHOULD THEREFORE HELP ALLAY PUBLIC LEVEL OF RISK THAT MAY BE POSED TO HONG KONG BY THE THE NUCLEAR POWER STATION AT DAYA BAY," SHE SAID.

MRS BOSHER NOTED THAT THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE STUDY REVEALED ANYTHING THAT CAUSE INTO QUESTION THE FINDINGS OF AN PROVIDED STUDY ON CONTINGENCY PLANNING, AND SAID THE DATA CURRENT

USEFUL STUDY WOULD PROVIDE

ADDITIONAL REFERENCE PREPARATION OF THE CONTINGENCY PLAN, WHICH WILL BE READY FOR SOME TIME

FURTHER DETAILS ON IN NOVEMBER THIS YEAR. WILL BE RELEASED NEARER THE TIME.

OF

THIS

HAVE NOT BARLIER BY THE IN THE TESTING EXERCISE

RELATED TO BOTH THE THE REPORT POINT'S OUT THAT "RISK" IS

THE LIKELIHOOD

AN

AND THE

HARMFUL OCCURRENCE

MAGNITUDE OF CONSEQUENCES. A PARTICULAR ACTIVITY COULD BE CONSIDERED MORE RISKY IF ACCIDENTS OCCURRED MORE FREQUENTLY OR IF THEY RESULTED IN MORE HARM.

/TWO GENERAL