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William Scranton Quotes
All of the information that we were getting up to that time from the NRC people, from our people who knew something about nuclear power, was that the breach of the core was not a likelihood to happen. - William Scranton Quotes
And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it. - William Scranton Quotes
And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained. - William Scranton Quotes
And if youre not going to have a clear health threat, you dont want to panic people. - William Scranton Quotes
And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions. - William Scranton Quotes
Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong. - William Scranton Quotes
But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information? - William Scranton Quotes
By Thursday morning, wed gotten over the worst of it. - William Scranton Quotes
Getting you ready to go into an area of radioactivity is an enormously complicated undertaking which requires actually very precise moves. - William Scranton Quotes
I mean, obviously, people dont like to know that somebodys venting that, but you have sulfur dioxide coming out of power plants. - William Scranton Quotes
I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy. - William Scranton Quotes
It took me 45 minutes to get in all of the suits and putting all the dosimeters on me so that they knew how much radiation I got and the protective boots and everything. - William Scranton Quotes
My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have. - William Scranton Quotes
Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around. - William Scranton Quotes
None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, thats clearly the most odious thing that could happen. - William Scranton Quotes
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing. - William Scranton Quotes
Obviously, Im not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was. - William Scranton Quotes
So very quickly we tried to learn what those allowable limits were and discern whether there was danger of those limits being breached. - William Scranton Quotes
So, I was in a sense like a news anchor while reporters were out there trying to gather the information. Thats what happened initially anyway. - William Scranton Quotes
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are. - William Scranton Quotes
The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight oclock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didnt know. - William Scranton Quotes
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state. - William Scranton Quotes
There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean theres radiation all around us. Theres radiation from your television set. Theres radiation from your computer. Theres radiation actually occurring in the ground. - William Scranton Quotes
There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning. - William Scranton Quotes
These were professionals who were clearly working hard to get on top of things and were doing that, at least insofar as they could. - William Scranton Quotes
Theyre calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and theyre not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed. - William Scranton Quotes
We were talking about radiation, which generates an enormous amount of fear. This was unknown and so there were no plans for that. - William Scranton Quotes
What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still havent gotten over that. - William Scranton Quotes
What is going on on the island is encouraging a cacophony of opinion, freely donated by whoever has a microphone in front of their mouth. - William Scranton Quotes
When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant. - William Scranton Quotes
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