William Scranton
William Scranton
William Warren "Bill" Scrantonwas an American Republican Party politician. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. From 1976 to 1977, he served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 July 1917
CountryUnited States of America
knew minutes putting radiation took
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.
breach core information knew likelihood nuclear people time
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.
lieutenant people responsibility
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.
knew looked none power
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
breach none odious
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.
auxiliary basement building except floor happened looked nuclear power saw
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.
oxygen protected
You're in an unfriendly, to say the least, atmosphere, so you have to be completely protected from it, from every molecule of oxygen that's there.
danger discern learn limits quickly tried whether
So very quickly we tried to learn what those allowable limits were and discern whether there was danger of those limits being breached.
bring creating experience knowledge table
So what I bring to the table is a knowledge and experience at creating opportunity,
claimed hard people reward
(Lawmakers) claimed it was for their hard work. Well, you don't reward people for working hard. You reward people for getting results,
coming people power
I mean, obviously, people don't like to know that somebody's venting that, but you have sulfur dioxide coming out of power plants.
clearly coming control situation
You clearly have radioactive air. The situation is still not under control because there's still radioactivity coming out into the atmosphere.
understanding needs judgment
You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.
ideas people would-be
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.