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Convenor of the Umelco public utilities panel, Maria Tam, said Legco members would give brief comments on the study report before going on their fact-finding trips.
A spokesman for the Joint Conference for the Shelving of the Daya Bay Project, Fung Chi-wood, said that radioactivity standards adopted in the feasibility study were lower than those adopted in the United States. He said the study was based on the assumption that the contaiment shield would not be broken in an accident.
The London Observer had published an article on what it claimed was correspondence between the HK Goverment and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on a preliminary accident assessment of the Daya Bay project, the Oriental Daily News and Sing Pao reported.
Commenting on the report, a Goverment spokesman confirmed that the Government had received preliminary information on accident assessment from the Atomic Energy Authority. The spokesman said this was a highly technical subject and naturally there were questions being asked, clarifications sought, points which would need further consideration and face-to-face discussions with the consultants.
The spokesman added that the Government would continue to remain in close contact with the Atomic Energy Authority on this and related subjects.
The Oriental Daily News said the director of NONA HK branch Xu Jiatun returned to Peking yesterday. It was believed that his trip was connected with the Daya Bay issue,
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The paper and HK Daily News reported that about 100 Urbco and Reg co members, academics and professionals were planning to launch a campaign in support of the construction of the Daya Bay plant. They would place an advertisement in Chinese papers next week and would distribute pamphlets in the middle of next month.
Ming Pao said it would send a reporter to go with the Legco delegation to Europe.
The HK Economic Journal doubted the reliability of the feasibility study report because it was made available by China Light and the Guangdong authorities which had a vested interest in the project. The paper felt that a qualified third party should be engaged to assess the report. It said the Leg co fact-finding missions should consult the experts they met on the report's value. The paper added that the anti-nuclear lobby would be greatly weakened if it could not come up with arguments against the conclusions of the feasibility study,
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