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P. Newall Esq.
Nuclear Energy Department
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HKC 166/3
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Date
166/5
18 November 1987
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Action Taken
Dear Peter
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Mr Arkwright
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DAYA BAY/GUANGDONG NUCLEAR PROJECT
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18/11
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166/3
PTA
1/12
Thank you for sending me the background information. which I requested on the suspension of work at Daya Bay. was able to take action with Joël Louvet at the Quai yesterday.
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Louvet accepted without reservation the need for EDF's solution to the problem to be «technically acceptable and accepted as such». He told me that the French authorities had made clear their dismay to those concerned, deploring what had happened for much the same reasons as those given in paragraph 2 of your teleletter. They were told that the problem had arisen as the result of a misreading of EDF's plans by the contractors (Sino/Franco/Japanese ?).
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Louvet (stressing that he was speaking «informally» as I had) said that according to the latest information he had received EDF had come up with a proposal to make compensating reinforcements in the second layer of the concrete placement. The French authorities were confident that EDF would only proceed with work which was wholly acceptable from the point of view of safety.
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As you know your teleletter was the first I had heard of the problems at Daya Bay. Could I please ask that we be kept in the picture on future developments particularly where these are likely to lead to démarches to the French.
Low's ever
R.M. White
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: G. E. Clark Esq, UKMis Vienna
Hong Kong Dept., FCO Far East Dept., FCO
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