TNAG-1506-FCO40-2064-Guangdong-nuclear-power-station-project-at-Daya-Bay-safety-c-1986 — Page 47

GINAGS

Mr Layden

DAYA BAY

CONFIDENTIAL

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FROM: C O HUM

DATE: 10 September 1986

RECEIVED IN REGBTRY

27 OCT 1986

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REGISTRY

Action Takén.

We spoke

briefly about the exchange

Daya

Bay

at

1.

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 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.

(ii) Miss Tam expressed the hope that the IAEA documentation

on the lessons to be learnt from Chernobyl could

could be

passed to the Hong Kong Government. Mr Renton said that

Renton 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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