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A round-up of media reports and commentaries
on the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station 12.11.87 18.11.87
Thursday, November 12- It would be unrealistic to assume that problems and mistakes would not occur during the construction of the Daya Bay plant, several papers reported, quoting the Financial Secretary, Piers Jacobs.
"What is important is that when such problems do arise, they are dealt with in a rational way and satisfactory remedial solutions are developed," he said.
In another development, the SCM Post and Ming Pao reported that Dr Arie Lewin, said in a lecture at the Chinese University yesterday that safety at the Daya Bay plant would only be possible with continual vigilance by plant managers,
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Dr Lewin, who was an American expert in nuclear management, that in running any nuclear plant where the consequences of an accident were potentially catastrophic - it was essential to maintain alert as well as flexible management,
Friday, November 13 - The HK Daily News reported prominently that the chief engineer and three other responsible staff at the Daya Bay plant had been fired as a result of the "missing bars" incident.
In a related development, Sing Tao Jih Pao reported that the HK Forum, a community group, issued a statement yesterday, criticising the HK Government and other people concerned for failing to protect the people's rights in the "missing bars" incident.
Saturday, November 14 - Legco members were regretted over the rejection of their request for hiring independent consultants to study remedial measures for the construction incident at the Daya Bay plant, the media reported.
Speaking after the Legco in-house meeting yesterday, Legco member Wong Po-yan said that the councillors could not be sure whether the correction for the construction errors would be adequate.
Four requests made yesterday relating to the Daya Bay plant were also reported in the press in good coverage.
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In an editorial comment, Ming Pao asked whether the Legco ad hoc group on the Daya Bay project should be dissolved as it had achieved no results at all on the 'missing bars" incident.
The SCM Post reported that the NCNA had quietly taken up the task of setting up a local consultative body on Daya Bay in a bid to win local confidence in China's ability to build the nuclear plant at HK's border.
The move, mooted several months ago, had been stepped up in the wake of a construction mishap which renewed controversy over the safety of the joint venture project.
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