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In an interview with Wen Wei Po in London, Conservative MP and chairman of the Anglo-Chinese Parliamentary Group, Robert Adley, said he believed that the project would be acceptable to HK. people if adequate safety measures were adopted and if the HK population were given proper nuclear education.

Ming Pao, in an editorial, reiterated its view that the Daya Bay nuclear power project should be resited. It said in the event of an accident, there would be no other place to re-establish an SAR for HK.

Friday, September 12: Anti-nuclear activist Fung Chi-wood said yesterday that HK people would not be reassured by the statement issued earlier by the Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher on the safety of the Daya Bay plant, ATV-E, Radio-3 and Commercial Radio-E reported.

Mr Fung reiterated that HK people wanted the nuclear project shelved or re-located.

However, in an interview with Radio-3, Urban Councillor Kwan Lim-ho said HK people should trust what the Prime Minister had said because "the British Government has not let HK people down before."

Mr Kwan had just returned from a nuclear fact-finding trip to Korea. He said his group, which emphasised a scientific approach to nuclear energy, would issue a report sometime next week.

An exhibition on nuclear technology, which was jointly organised by the HK Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology and the Chinese Nuclear Society, would be held from tomorrow to September 26 at the Star House, a few papers reported.

Anglican Bishop of HK and Macau, Rev. Peter Kwong, stressed that the people concerned about the Daya Bay plant should now cool down and seek an objective solution to the issue, Wen Wei Po reported.

Legco member and HK delegate to the CPPCC, Ho Sai-chu, told Tin Tin Daily News that the construction of the Daya Bay plant did not mean that China had not respect HK people's views as it had the right to

build it.

He added that public fears in HK would be reduced if the Legco fact-finding missions could achieve good results in their coming Peking

visit.

In London, the Governor, Sir Edward Youde, said that as the Chinese side had said that the construction of the nuclear plant would be on schedule, he and the Exco members had not raised the question of shelving the project during their meeting with the Prime Minister.

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