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.

In accordance with his 1966 pledge never to seek elected office he rebuffed a draft movement encouraging him to run for the U. S. Biography


Early life
William Scranton was born while the Scranton family was on vacation at a cottage in Madison Connecticut.

Republican Party politician. From 1976 to 1977 he served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. William Warren Scranton (born July 19 1917) is a former U.