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because they do not show that nuclear power would be

cheaper or because the bases for the

energy

projection

of

demand growth cannot be justified; or both?

It is submitted that if it is not proved

(a) that we need more electricity; and

(b)

nuclear energy will be cheaper,

then the

relevant

authorities

have not begun to

prove a case as to why the people of Hong Kong, the

should be forced to bear any

ultimate consumers

risk at all, minimal though it may be.

to

It is submitted that it is in the interest of the

Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Comp any

defer the signing of the material contracts with the

French and British suppliers So that the full

implications of the Chernobyl incident can be fully

understood by nuclear experts

the free world in

the light of information disclosed to them by the

Russians at the Vienna Conference (21-25 August).

It cannot be right for the Joint Venture Company to

rush forward when the whole world is waiting.