From the pages of the South China Morning Post this week in 1975
Sir Lawrence Kadoorie, chairman of China Light and Power Co Ltd, shot down the possibility of Hong Kong getting a nuclear power plant in the near future.
The long-time authority on power said the cost of a nuclear power plant had priced itself out of 'the realm of practical economics in the light of Hong Kong today' and likened the proposal to getting to the moon.
'Nuclear power is so expensive that even if you consider it for the existing power companies, the cost will run into billions of dollars,' Sir Lawrence said.
He said Hong Kong needed at least two sets of 600 megawatt nuclear power plants to be effective and they would cost in the neighbourhood of HK$7.5 billion - 11/2 times the cost of the Mass Transit Railway.
The alternative for Hong Kong would be to buy nuclear power from China should the latter build a plant nearby, he suggested.
