CJ1 ANX
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Telephone 01- 233 3988
Canberra Nuclear Free and
Independent Pacific Committee
PO Box 1875
Canberra City
ACT 2600
AUSTRALIA
Your reference
Our reference HKK 166/1
Date 30 December 1986
Commillee
Thank you for your
about the
planned Daya passed to me for reply.
letter of 1 December to the Prime Minister
Bay
Nuclear
Power
Plant,
which
has
been
I
shall
your letter:
the points you made answer
in
the
same
order
as in
by
the Guangdong Power Guangdong) and electricity
the
to the
enable to
the
(which Company
Power China Light and
Kowloon Peninsula and
and technical nuclear
power
the on
(1) A study Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China
feasibility of a nuclear power station in
Hong Kong), of jointly constructing a
At
the Hong Kong Government's request the companies agreed those parts of the study covering site selection, equipment study
designs could, and
system commercially sensitive
to be
was prepared supplies electricity
Company (which supplies
the New
Territories of financial considerations station
evaluated.
in
that
or
They question Government
were
in
tariff
The
Government
the with
exception of certain information, classified
published.
in
November released
July 1986. the Hong Kong Legislative Council, further information published for the purchase of electricity Hong Kong
believes there is little
be
In
in
response
to
a
the
Hong Kong
on
further
the safety from the Daya Bay Plant.
that without breaching information
and
on
commercial confidentiality that can usefully be made available.
to
(2) The Hong Kong Government is preparing contingency plans deal
at Daya Bay with the remote possibility of an accident
the to this end has retained to Hong Kong, and resulting in risks
consultants. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority as
this on
(3) The Hong Kong Government has carefully monitored public opinion
subject. However,
since the plant will not be in located in Hong Kong,
in Guangdong Province
not public
Republic
of
appropriate.
China,
but
a
enquiry
་
is
the People's
considered
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