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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE IAEA EXAMINING TWO CONVENTIONS: ONE ON PROMPT

INFORMATION ABOUT NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS AND THE OTHER ON EMERGENCY AID

FOR NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS. HE SAID THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE

TOWARDS THESE TWO CONVENTIONS WAS POSITIVE. JI PENGFEI HOSTED A

BANQUET FOR THE GROUP ON 20 SEPTEMBER.

6. A REPORT IN THE OVERSEAS PEOPLE'S DAILY OF 22 SEPTEMBER GAVE

MORE DETAIL ON THE GROUP'S DISCUSSIONS WITH THE NUCLEAR ENERGY

RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT OINGHUA UNIVERSITY. THE INSTITUTE DIRECTOR,

WANG DAZHONG, SAID THAT PERSONNEL FOR DAYA BAY WOULD BE TRAINED AT

THE INSTITUTE. DESMOND LEE YU-TAI SAID THAT AFTER THIS VISIT HE FELT

THAT CHINA'S NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY WOULD REASSURE PEOPLE. FEW PEOPLE IN

HONG KONG UNDERSTOOD THE NUCLEAR POWER STATION, INCLUDING HIMSELF

BEFORE THIS VISIT. HONG KONG PEOPLE'S WORRIES WERE GENUINELY FELT.

SIMPLY REPEATING PROPAGANDA WOULD NOT ALLAY THEM. HE HOPED THAT HONG

KONG PEOPLE COULD PARTICIPATE IN THE ADVISORY GROUP. ALLEN LEE SAID

THAT WHAT HAD STRUCK HIM MOST ABOUT HIS VISIT WAS THE AMOUT OF

PREPARATORY WORK CHINA HAD DONE IN NUCLEAR ENERGY, IN PARTICULAR FOR

THE DAYA BAY NUCLEAR POWER STATION. HE CONSIDERED THAT EVEN MORE

HONG KONG PEOPLE SHOULD VISIT THE NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

IN ORDER TO GAIN A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF THE LEVEL OF NUCLEAR

TECHNOLOGY IN CHINA.

HOWE

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