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OCT 16 '86 12:29 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
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Tuesday, October 7: The chairman of China Light Lord Kadoorie said after attending the formal opening ceremony of the Stock Exchange of HK yesterday that he thought the Daya Bay contracts had been approved by the Chinese State Council, several papers reported.
The secretary-general of the Guangdong Nuclear Power JVC in Peking told Sing Pao yesterday that relevant contracts for the Daya Bay project, which had been endorsed by the Chinese Government, would become effective today.
A senior engineer of the Institute of Geological Science of Guangdong Province, Chen Tingguang, told a seminar in HK yesterday that Daya Bay was carefully chosen for the construction of a nuclear plant as medium to strong earthquakes in the area were unlikely, some papers reported.
According to the Oriental Daily News and the HK Daily News, Dr M.J. Atherton, senior lecturer in geology at the HK Polytechnic, said at the seminar that the probability of an earthquake at Daya Bay would be one fifteenth if the operation of the nuclear plant to be built there was put at 40 years.
He added that some nuclear plants in Taiwan, Japan and the United States were built in areas where the probability of an earthquake was higher than one fifteenth.
The public relations mechanisms of both the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company and China Light and Power are set for rapid expansion in preparation for the mammoth Daya Bay programmes lying ahead, the Standard reported. At present, only three mainland officials have been earmarked for the joint venture company public affairs unit, while there are just two junior officers left at the China Light section. The two companies intend to triple their public relationa personnel before year's and, when a dozen "structured programmes" are to be implemented.
Wednesday, October 8: The Director of Water Supplies, Thomas Tomlinson, said after a public function yesterday that HK would have no alternative source of water supply if the East River was contaminated as a result of an accident at Daya Bay, Ming Pao reported prominently.
Mr Tomlinson pointed out that the authorities had yet to formulate plans to monitor the possibility of contaminated water from being supplied from the East River. However, his department had been holding discussions with the Royal Observatory's radiation monitoring unit to study how HK's water sources would be affected if there was an accident at the Daya Bay plant.
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