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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.