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radiation monitoring is fully sufficient?

And if not, will they make sufficient funds available immediately to purchase the numbers and types of instruments necessary to give them internationally accepted standards of monitoring?

2. Has Government made a proper dispersion study which,

because of our many micro climates may be extremely complicated, to indicate in case of an accident where most of the radioactive fallout will accumulate?

3. What plans have they made to check food and water coming in from China in case of contamination across the border of food and water by a minor accident at Daya Bay?

4. What plans have they made to replace our food and water

should there be major radioactive contamination caused by an accident at Daya Bay?

5. What plans have they made for full scale evacuation of

the Hong Kong population should there be a major accident at Daya Bay?

Mr. Chairman, I believe that this matter is so serious that it requires a public enquiry.

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None of the questions I then asked were answered and, of course, the call for a public enquiry was completely ignored.

And guess who was sitting next to me while I was making that speech? EXCO and LEGCO Member Ms. Maria Tam! Enough said.

What really annoys me about this period AC is not that the same people whom I warned three years ago about the problems which Daya Bay presented and who then paid no attention whatsoever are now climbing on the bandwagon and are making judgements without any basic knowledge, but that these same people when one talks to them about pollution pay no attention whatsoever because controlling pollution could be expensive, could look bad with their constituents, and anyhow is not very important!

And yet, the health risks posed by our present already existing air and water pollution are just as serious as risks posed by nuclear power stations.

Incidentally, I think Daya Bay has laid to rest the canard that Hong Kong people are politically naive and can therefore not be trusted to run their own Government. Because our politicians, high and low, in the Councils, and out of the Councils, have shown that they are as sophisticated as any in the world and know how to climb on a bandwagon when they see one, and also already know how to spend the taxpayer's money on glorifying junkets.

When I made my trips to the nuclear power stations in Europe four years ago and learned about the emergency procedures, including evacuation plans, for surrounding areas devised by the French, and especially how their international warning system works, it frightened the daylights out of me because at the largest collection of PWR's in the world sited as already mentioned between Calais and Dunkirk, only 50 km from Dover and from large Belgium population centres, the procedures there, if something were to go wrong, would be that a notification of the accident would first of all go to the Prefecture in Lille on the