ÓCT 03 '86 16:36 TIBCOOL) HK GOVT
Sing Tao Jih Pao quoted sources from Peking as saying that the Shenzhen University, which was more than 10 kilometres northwest of HK, had purchased a small nuclear reactor worth US$700 000 from China's Nuclear Research Institute for research purposes.
The head of the nuclear research institute, Sun Zuxun, stressed that the small nuclear reactor could even be placed at the heart of a city because it was very safe.
Saturday, September 27: Legco members decided at yesterday's in-house meeting to move a resolution at a meeting of the council on October 15 to seek further information from the Government on the safety aspect of the Daya Bay plant and the arrangements for buying electricity from the plant, the media reported prominently, quoting Senior Legco Unofficial Lydia Dunn.
Mise Dunn told newsmen after the meeting that exact wording of the motion had yet to be worked out.
Radio-1 and a few papers quoted Legco member Richard Lai as saying that he was satisfied with the result of the meeting. He said that although China had made assurances concerning the safety of the plant, many Legco members might still have questions over how the future electricity charges would be calculated.
The Oriental Daily News reported that according to a report in the "Guardian" newspaper in London, the price of electricity from the Daya Bay plant in the first six years of ite operation would be fifty-four HK cents per unit, which would be cheaper by 14.3 per cent or nine HK cents per unit of coal-fired electricity being produced by China Light.
Sunday, September 28: Legco Unofficial Szeto Wah said after a public seminar yesterday that some of his Legco colleagues were prepared to invoke the Legco Powers and Privileges Ordinance to obtain detailed information related to the economic and safety aspects of the Daya Bay project if the Government failed to supply such information, according to prominent press reports.
A few papers reported that a spokesman for the Joint Conference for the Shelving of the Daya Bay Project, Anthony Ha, said they welcomed Legco's decision to hold a second debate on the Daya Bay issue.
Monday, September 29: A director of the HK Nuclear Investment Company, Steven Poon, said after attending a "City Forum" discussion yesterday that his company's profits would not exceed the maximum limit set out in HK Government's scheme of control on public utilities, the media reported prominently.
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