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3.7

Annex

(page 6)

If the assistance now requested is related to: (a) any other project at your or another institution in the country; or (b) previous technical co-operation project or research

with the Agency; or (c) any

other bilateral/multilateral assistance programmes,

assistance programmes, please provide the following details on them:

any contract

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

the source, title, location, code No., date and duration of the project;

in the case of Agency projects, the extent to which equipment, training, expert services provided are being utilized and any reasons for non-utilization; and

the results obtained.

This application is related to the following projects

(a) HOK/1/004 Calibration Facilities for Dosimetry

(b)

Setting up of facilities at the Royal Observatory (a Hong Kong Government department) to calibrate environmental radiation monitors used in the Early Alerting Network. The project began in early 1989 and was completed in mid 1992. The calibration facilities are now operational and are permanently set up at a RO laboratory.

HOK/9/002-01, 02. 03 & 04: Emergency Special Assistance Mission to Hong Kong

Preparedness:

In Nov 1989, July 1990 and Nov 1990, Dr. B.H. Weiss and Dr. J.D. Jamison came to Hong Kong and kindly provided advice at all stages of the planning, implementation and evaluation process of the exercise to test the first draft of Hong Kong's Daya Bay Contingency Plan. Based on the advice of these two experts and those of the other exercise observers, the draft DBCP is being reviewed and revised. The revised plan will be retested in May 1993 through a further exercise, before the commissioning of the GNPS in October of the same year. (Sub-project reference numbers 01, 02 and 03 refer).

In Nov 1991, Dr. E. Asculai came to Hong Kong and gave advice to the Royal Observatory on radiation monitoring matters. He acted as a guest speaker at a meeting convened by Security Branch and attended by major DBCP departments where he answered members' question on nuclear and radiation matters departmental DBCPs. (Sub-project refers.)

relating to their reference number 04