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Saturday, October 17

Many papers reported that the four requesto by the Legco group on the incident at the Daya Bay plant ware endorsed as • Legco in-house meeting yesterday.

The Secretary for Economic Services, Anson Chan, told newater. after a public function yesterday that the Government had already stated its demands on the incident to the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company. She said the Government was awaiting a full report on the case and would make a statement on the incident as soon as it was in a position to do so.

Askad why the public was told of the incident 13 days after it happened, Mrs Chan said that it was the JVC's responsibility to inform the public of the incident.

Ming Pao said Mrs Char. did not give a direct answer to questions on why she had not pursued this question at HONIC'a board meating as promised.

A director of the HKNIC, Steven Roon, told RTEK's "Penseprise" yesterday that the constructica fault at Daya Bay indicated there ware loopholes in the supervision of the poojact,

Re considered that the problem was not complicated and not serious technically and that the proposed remedial measures might be looked as another way of designing che project.

Sunday, October 18 In minor coverage, several papata quoted a Central News Agency dispatch as saying that the latest edition of the "Tide" magazine in HK carried a complaint letter which stated that cracks were found at the containment shield of a reactor at the Qinshan nuclear plant.

According to the report, the complainant quoted an expart a. saying that the Incident was very serious, but the Chinese authorities had only repaired the containment shield by filling the cracka with

Caments.

The Secretary for Economic Services, Anson Chan, told RTHK's "To the Point" yesterday that she felt that there was no unacceptable Čelay in the fact that the IX Government was informed of the construction fault on September 26 when work on the raft was atopred on September 14.

Legco meuter Tas Vil-chung told Radio-l'a "Th. Parspmotiva” yesterday that judging from the fact that chins had taken the initiative to zake known the coastruction favit, it scemed that the country had not intended to do any cover-up.

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