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Miss Tam agreed to a question if the Legco missions' recent overseas visits had been six years late. She said that if she could "turn the clock back" and if the plant was built in HK, public education on nuclear energy should have started years ago.
However, Mr Lee doubted the usefulness of nuclear education. He said people in the United States had been doing that for years, but in a recent opinion poll, more than 70 per cent of them were
anti-nuclear.
Mr Lee said in the programme that he found it ridiculous that there were deep concerns in the Daya Bay project, yet it was still not known whether he had the opportunity to voice his views in the form of a special meeting in the Legco.
A third panelist, Urban Councillor Walter Sulke felt that coal-fired power stations would give worse pollution than nuclear plants. However, he called on the Chinese authorities to wait at least five years until somebody produced a commercially viable plant that would have inherent safety.
Legco Unofficial Conrad Lam said in the programme that an advisory committee should be set up before the signing of the Daya Bay
contracts.
A fifth panelist, HKU lecturer Dr M.K. Yeung urged that when a decision was made on whether nuclear energy was used, it must be made in a rational way and based on scientific facta.
Ta Kung Pao reported that Legco Unofficial Helmut Solmen said in a statement yesterday that he did not agree with a proposal to hold a special Legco debate on the Daya Bay issue as China had already decided to build the plant.
He added that he supported the Legco missions' report and felt that the Legco missions should accept China's invitation to visit Peking.
In moderate coverage, the media reported that a visiting BLDC member from China and the president of China's Association of Science and Technology, Qian Weizhang, said yesterday that the present controversy over Daya Bay was a result of mutual distrust between the people of HK and the Chinese authorities.
He said it would be difficult for HK people to take part in the management of the plant because they lacked experience in nuclear
technology.
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