By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

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None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.

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

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

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You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.

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But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

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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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None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen.

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My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

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