William Scranton
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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.
William Scranton
I mean, obviously, people don't like to know that somebody's venting that, but you have sulfur dioxide coming out of power plants.
William Scranton
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
William Scranton
So very quickly we tried to learn what those allowable limits were and discern whether there was danger of those limits being breached.
William Scranton
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.
William Scranton
What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.
William Scranton
You clearly have radioactive air. The situation is still not under control because there's still radioactivity coming out into the atmosphere.
William Scranton
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.
William Scranton
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.
William Scranton
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
