"Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of……" — William Scranton
"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 trouble, which was the water and where it was."
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25 Quotes by William Scranton
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By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.
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But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?
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And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had…
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And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely…
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There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take…
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None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
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It took me 45 minutes to get in all of the suits and putting all the dosimeters on me so…
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And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.
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