William Scranton

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it. ↗

— William Scranton

#morning #over #thursday #worst

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. ↗

— William Scranton

#breach #core #getting #happen #information

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it. ↗

— William Scranton

#got #i #i remember #must #quite

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people. ↗

— William Scranton

#going #health #panic #people #threat

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. ↗

— William Scranton

#could #decisions #edison #fact #i

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 said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong. ↗

— William Scranton

#conference #day #down #essence #everything

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

— William Scranton

#gather #how #information #issue #keep

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy. ↗

— William Scranton

#cause #chairman #conference #council #energy

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. ↗

— William Scranton

#everything #get #got #how #i

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have. ↗

— William Scranton

#compared #how #i #inside #me