TNAG-1508-FCO40-2066-Guangdong-nuclear-power-station-project-at-Daya-Bay-safety-c-1987 — Page 8

CJ1ANX

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

(E MOS

Olli Tammilehto, Esq

Chairman

EV

Pursimichenkatu 29-31A

00150 Helsinki 15

FINLAND

Telephone 01-

233 3988

785

Your reference

Our reference

HKK 166/1

Date

30 December 1986

Her

Thank

Tammi

for you

planned Daya Bay Nuclear for reply.

HKK CEIVE.

166/1.....

5. JAN 1987

Prime

[whicl

the Minister about has been passed to me

letter to the your

Power Plant,

I shall

answer

the points you

made in

the same order as

in

your letter:

in

(1) A study on the feasibility of a nuclear power station in Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China was prepared by the Guangdong Power Company (which supplies electricity Guangdong) and the China Light and Power Company (which supplies

to the electricity

Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories of to enable the Hong Kong),

technical and financial considerations

nuclear

station to be evaluated. of jointly constructing a At the

Government's request Hong Kong Government's

the companies

power

agreed

that

those parts

parts of the study covering site selection, equipment study

designs could, with the system

and

commercially sensitive

certain published. response to a

the

and

or

classified

They

were

question

Government

released in the

published

In

of exception

be information, in July 1986.

November in

Council, Hong Kong Legislative

further information on

safety

tariff

The

for Hong

commercial

confidentiality

there

is

little

that

can usefully be made available.

Hong Kong on the

Plant. Daya Bay without breaching further information

the from the purchase of electricity

believes that

Kong Government

to

(2) The Hong Kong Government is

is preparing contingency plans deal with the remote possibility of an accident at Daya Bay

to this end has retained resulting in risks to Hong Kong, and United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority as consultants.

However,

since

the

(3) The Hong Kong Government has carefully monitored public opinion

this subject. on

the plant will not be

in located in Hong Kong,

in Guangdong Province the People's is public enquiry

not considered

Republic

of China,

appropriate.

but

a