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
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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.
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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 saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.
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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.
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We did not decide as a board to expand any of the lands for industrial use in South Wallingford.
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(Lawmakers) claimed it was for their hard work. Well, you don't reward people for working hard. You reward people for getting results,
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The public schools, trade schools and research schools, these are the coal mines of the 21st century,
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These were professionals who were clearly working hard to get on top of things and were doing that, at least insofar as they could.
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So very quickly we tried to learn what those allowable limits were and discern whether there was danger of those limits being breached.
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So what I bring to the table is a knowledge and experience at creating opportunity,
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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.
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So, I was in a sense like a news anchor while reporters were out there trying to gather the information. That's what happened initially anyway.
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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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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.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.