TNAG-1504-FCO40-2062-Guangdong-nuclear-power-station-project-at-Daya-Bay-safety-c-1986 — Page 171

SEP 05 '86 14:59 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT

Monday, August 25: In a front-page report today, Sing Pao quoted the Chief Secretary, Sir David Akers-Jones, as saying that the Chinese authorities would sign the contracts for the supply of equipment for the Daya Bay project with the British and French suppliers at the end of next month. Sir David said he had told Martin Lee about this.

Some papers reported that the acting Senior Legco Unofficial S.L. Chen had indicated that an in-house meeting of Legco would be held two or three days after the reports of the council's overseas missions were received to decide whether a special sitting of the Council should be held.

At a press conference yesterday, the Joint Conference for the Shelving of the Daya Bay Project called on the Governor to consider convening a special sitting of Legco to discuss the Daya Bay issue. The group also planned a series of anti-nuclear activities, including exhibitions, mass rallies and petitions to the Secretariat.

The media reported that two members of a Government team which met scientists at the UK Atomic Energy Authority to discuss a further study on the Daya Bay nuclear project returned to HK yesterday. They were the Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services Graham Osborne and senior scientific officer responsible for radiation monitoring at the Royal Observatory, Dr M.C.Wong.

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Mr Osborne said the team had received all possible co-operation from officials in the UK. He said a report would be submitted to the Financial Secretary and the Secretary for Economic Services. A statement on the subject might be issued afterwards.

The Oriental Daily News reported that the Legco fact-finding- missions would come up with 40 suggestions in their reports for consideration by the Chinese and HK governments and the JVC.

Among the suggestions was the inclusion of a "sand filter system" to improve the safety of the plant.

To avoid being accused of interfering with China's internal affairs, the reports would use the term "observations" to describe the delegations' suggestions, the paper said.

The paper also reported that the UKAEA had accepted suggestions by the HK Government that its phase II risk assessment report for the Daya Bay project should be completed before mid-1987 and that it should be compiled in language that laymen could understand.

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