TNAG-1657-FCO40-2305-Daya-Bay-nuclear-power-station-project-safety-concerns-in-Ho-1987 — Page 14

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CLP/Hong Kong need to ensure energy

supplies from early '90s onwards, but constrained by real estate, and concerned

to build up links with China.

- CLP began contacts with Guangdong Power Corporation to supply "surplus" electricity into the economic zone of Shenzhen;

the first hint of a suggestion that

Guangdong could be the site of a PWR

serving both the Province and Hong Kong;

tentative soundings between CLP/Guangdong

PC, and the UK provided CLP with "experts"

who could provide a technical input that

CLP themselves lacked;

growing "political contacts" across the

Hong Kong/China border.

At this stage, the running was made with

considerable imagination by CLP, notably

under their Chairman, Lord Kadoorie and

his CLP manager, Bill Stones.

UK had to rein back "scientific enthusiasts"

with no nuclear programme under way, UK

had engineers/scientists with little to

do, and rather less commercial acumen, who had notions of joining with Westinghouse

to do "the first Sizewell" in Southern

China.

But even so, there was a more

serious impediment to such an approach,

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