It took me 45 minutes to ge... by William Scranton, an American Politician

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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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Name: William Scranton

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jul 19, 1917

Profession: Politician

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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.

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

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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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When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.

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