TNAG-1658-FCO40-2306-Daya-Bay-nuclear-power-station-project-safety-concerns-in-Ho-1987 — Page 14

DEC 17 '87 12:29 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT

A round-up of media reports and commentaries

on the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station

26.11.87 9.12.87

Friday, November 27 - A number of papers reported that the

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president of a French steel structural design company involved in China's controversial Daya Bay plant said in HK yesterday that he was confident it would be absolutely safe when completed.

Sunday, November 29 China had completed an assessment on the preliminary safety analysis report on the Daya Bay plant and the results would be submitted to a group of nuclear experts for discussions at a meeting to be held in Peking next month, the papers reported yesterday, quoting an NCNA dispatch issued from the Chinese capital yesterday.

The papers quoted the dispatch as reporting that the meeting in Peking would decide whether a full-scale construction permit should be issued to the Daya Bay plent.

The director of the Chinese National Nuclear Safety Administration, Jiang Shengjie, was quoted as saying that the administration had received the application for construction and preliminary safety analysis report from the plant in July.

Nuclear safety expert meetings were then held in France and in Peking to assess the application and the safety report.

Tuesday, December 1- In an article published in Ming Pao, a Christian group called on the Chinese authorities to listen to public opinion and to remove the Daya Bay plant to another place.

In an article published in the Ming Pao Evening News, Legco member Chung Pui-lam said that people in HK were still concerned about the safety of the Daya Bay plant. He pointed out that worries here deepened following the "missing bars" incident. Since HK would be a major consumer of nuclear electricity to be supplied by the Daya Bay plant, the people would have the right and reasons to ask China to draw up a management system which would be acceptable to them,

Mr Chung said.

In another development, the HK Standard reported prominently that anti-nuclear activist the Rev Fung Chi-wood claimed that he had come under pressure from Anglican church leaders to leave HK and to cease his non-church activities.

A spokesman for the Anglican Diocese, the Rev Ian Lam denied that the controversial cleric had been pressured. A similar story appeared in the HK Daily News the following day.

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