DEN RGY T.H.S.
No.01 834 3771
04.09.86
15:53 P.02
SECRETARY OF STATE'S ARTICLE FOR WEN WEI PO
PARAGRAPHS ON DAYA BAY NUCLEAR POWER STATION
1. The UK is also involved in many different ways in the construction of China's first commercial nuclear power station which is to be sited at Daya Bay about 50 kilometres from Hong Kong.
The station will be owned by the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company, a Hong Kong/Chinese joint venture, and 70% of the electricity produced will be fed into the Hong Kong grid through the China Light and Power Company. While Framatome are to supply the nuclear island, GEC Turbine
This Generators Limited are to supply the turbo generators. contract, with a UK value of over £250m, includes responsibility for the design, manufacture and supply of the conventional island comprising the turbine generators, all auxiliary plant in the turbine holds, the normal medium and low voltage
The contract also switch gear and the main transformer platforms. includes responsibility for the design of the civil engineering works and technical services relating to the construction of the non-nuclear plant.
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The UK's interest in this project goes wider than trade. ecognise the real concern of the people in Hong Kong about safety of the plant and have followed very closely the
We take seriously our ganese) ic debate in Hong Kong. responsibility for the safety of the people of Hong Kong and, although the plant is to be built to a French design and operate in China, we have discussed concerns of Hong Kong, as we have discussed other aspects of the project, and know from their statements of the seriousness with which they take all
their intention to ensure the necessary safety aspects of standards of safety.
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In deciding to build this plant, the Chinese have decided, like virtually all major industrial economies, they should have a nuclear component in their electrical system complemen their great existing natural energy resources. accept the need for the highest standards of safety, but, like
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