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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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.
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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.
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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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I mean, obviously, people don't like to know that somebody's venting that, but you have sulfur dioxide coming out of power plants.
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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.
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And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.
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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.
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The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
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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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Getting you ready to go into an area of radioactivity is an enormously complicated undertaking which requires actually very precise moves.
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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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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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We were talking about radiation, which generates an enormous amount of fear. This was unknown and so there were no plans for that.