- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor.
- Nov 07, 2020
You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020