46 Quotes by 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.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

We did not decide as a board to expand any of the lands for industrial use in South Wallingford.

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.