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25 quotes by William Scranton

William Warren "Bill" Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was 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.
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By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

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None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.

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You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

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Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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.... →

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