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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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
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.
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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.
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And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.
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The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
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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.
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