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Mr Layden

DAYA BAY

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12 TER NCS

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OHUM

DATE: 10 September 1986

1.

We spoke briefly about the exchange on Daya Bay at

Mr Renton's lunch for the Governor and ExCo yesterday. I should set down the main points in more detail: Mr Westmacott will be producing a record in due course.

2.

Miss Tam made three specific points about Daya Bay which

need consideration and action:

(i) She referred to the work of the consultants from

Harwell. She said it was important that they should go

on site and demonstrate that they were looking at the

specific features of the Daya Bay project. In general she hoped they were taking their work sufficiently

seriously. Mr Renton and Dr

Dr Wilson pointed out that

Harwell were working as consultants to the Hong Kong Government, which would be taking the lead in defining their terms of reference. I added that in meetings with

the Department of Enegy and the UKAEA we had left them in no doubt about the political significance of their work on Daya Bay and our hope that this should be given

high priority.

on

the

(ii) Miss Tam expressed the hope that the IAEA documentation lessons to be learnt from Chernobyl could be

passed to the Hong Kong Government. Mr Renton said that the department would check what could be made available. and pass on all available IAEA material. The Chernobyl post-mortem document was very thick and the catalogue of human error which it contained would not necessarily be

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