And if you’re not going to have a clear health threat, you don’t want to panic people. William Scranton Read Quote
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 that could happen. William Scranton Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. William Scranton Read Quote
And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it. William Scranton Read Quote
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 Read Quote
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing. William Scranton Read Quote
You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn’t have that. William Scranton Read Quote
You’re feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn’t feel as lieutenant governor. William Scranton Read Quote
They’re calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they’re not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed. William Scranton Read Quote
