8.
The original
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emergency
plan involved a 5-mile
for
evacuation zone with a 50-mile ingestion zone
food,
water, cattle, etc.. The existing emergency
plan involves a 10-mile evacuation zone and a
But after Chernobyl, some
15-mile ingestion zone.
zones,
in
experts have advised extending these
particular, extending the evacuation zone to 30
miles in radius.
N B.: For the context of Hong Kong 30 miles from
Daya Bay will take us to the very heart of Kowloon.
In dealing with the area for evacuation it must be
emphasised that people living well outside that area
might choose to leave their homes; So that
planning for the necessary evacuation, one must make
allowance for these voluntary evacuees.
in
For Hong
Kong, it could mean the entire population!
9.
Although I was told by Mr. Berkovitz,
assistant
counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment
and Public Work, that the U.S. Congress as well as
the people of U.S.A. have not made up their minds as
to the future direction of nuclear energy, Mr. T.K.
Lau of the U.S. Department of Energy had no doubt
whatsoever that the Department of Energy is quite
intent on continuing with its nuclear policy,
although he acknowledged that it would take at least
5 years before there will be another nuclear plant
proposed because of the prevailing anti-nuclear
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