OCT 16 '87 16:34 TIBCOOL) HK GOVT
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The South China Morning Post quoted John Wilson of the Economic Services Branch as saying that the Government would help Legco mambers if they pressed their case with China about a Daya Bay advisory body that would include HK people.
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Commentaries Wah Kiu Yat Po (12.10) said in a short commentary
that the Chinese authorities should take the initiative to invite HK
people to take part in a monitoring body on the plant to be set up by
it.
Ching Po (12.10) said in an editorial that the authorities concerned should learn a lesson from the incident and to step up supervision on various works.
The HK Times (12.10) said that the only thing HK people could do now was to fight for the participation on a monitoring body to supervise the construction and operation of the plant.
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Tuesday, October 13 The electronic and print media continued to devote prominent and extensive coverage to news and views on the incident at Daya Bay nuclear plant in which more than 300 metal bars were found to have been omitted from the first and the lowest concrete
layer of one of the reactors.
The site visit by a deputy director of Nuclear Electricity Bureau under the National Nuclear Industry Ministry, Zang Mingchang, yesterday, received prominent coverage in a number of papers, including Wen Wei Po and Ta Kung Pao.
It was reported that he would make proposals to the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company on ways of improving supervisions on construction works.
The Oriental Daily News quoted Mr Zang as saying that the remedial action to be taken would not need the approval from the National Nuclear Safety Administration.
The director of JVC's public relations department, Yu Jiechun, was widely quoted as saying that construction work on the foundation raft was expected to resume in about one week's time as the JVC had accepted the proposed remedial measures.
He added that prior approval for the remedial measures from China's Nuclear Industry Ministry and the National Nuclear Safety Administration was not necessary because the problem was considered to
be minor.
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