(Lawmakers) claimed it was for their hard work. Well, you don't reward people for working hard. You reward people for getting results,
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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.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.
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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.
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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 boots and everything.
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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.
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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 saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.
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