Daya Bay

27 Apr 2012

A two-day emergency drill that aims to test the city's ability to respond to a nuclear accident is no public relations show, the security chief says amid criticism that the exercise is ineffective...

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Daya Bay drill to test safety plans

21 Apr 2012

Overseas experts and International Atomic Energy Agency officials will observe a two-day drill next week - the first in 15 years - to test the city's emergency procedures for a nuclear accident at...

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Cosmic sleuths on the case

25 Mar 2012

It's not every day you get to help determine a fundamental constant of nature and a new phenomenon in particle physics. But an international team of scientists believes they have done just that,...

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Fukushima mother's nuclear challenge

29 Feb 2012

A single mother from the radiation-contaminated Japanese city of Fukushima will challenge Hong Kong's three chief executive contenders face to face on issues of nuclear safety and clean energy on...

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A Sino-US matter of great import

29 Aug 2011

Why is there something rather than nothing, the great 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Leibniz famously asked. Physicists may be close to getting an answer from experiments being...

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Experiments at Daya Bay shed light on antimatter

28 Aug 2011

In an attempt to understand the origins of matter, Chinese and US scientists have begun a multimillion-dollar collaboration at the Daya Bay nuclear facility, the power station northeast of Hong...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

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Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

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Daya Bay begins quest to find cosmic answers

A groundbreaking experiment to find answers about the origins of the universe has begun at Daya Bay, the nuclear facility north of the border that provides the bulk of Hong Kong's electricity....

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City Digest

Mong Kok site to be rezoned commercial

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Public to be involved in nuclear drill

Hong Kong's first nuclear safety drill in more than a decade could involve more than 1,000 city residents, if officials decide to expand the 'emergency zone'' around the Daya Bay nuclear complex...

11:51AM

Nuclear power not the answer to HK's needs

Last month's huge earthquake off the coast of Japan led to a tsunami that killed thousands of people. The Fukushima nuclear power plant was damaged by the giant waves, with radiation leaking...

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Daya Bay in nuclear safety success

The Daya Bay nuclear plant in Guangdong has won top marks in a safety competition organised by Electricite de France - a leading Paris-based nuclear energy company.

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HK activists plan anti-nuclear march

As Japan battles to bring its renegade nuclear reactors under control, other countries are reviewing their own nuclear power plans.

The 9.0-magtitude quake that hit the islands on...

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