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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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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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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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.
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We need to cut taxes instead of increasing taxes and put the state government on a diet,
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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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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.
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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.
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There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.
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But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?