William Scranton Quotes

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• By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
• 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…
• The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
• Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything…
• The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.
• But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
• 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…
• And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.
• 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…
• None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing…
• Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the…
• The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call…

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