Three Mile Island Quotes:

As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.

- Steven F. Hayward

topic: Class, Hysteria, Islands, Spills, Three Mile Island

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

- Bill Gates

source: "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

topic: Mishaps, Fukushima, Big Events, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

- Johnny Carson

topic: Fun, Turkeys, Two, Cranberries, Thanksgiving Dinner

On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.

- Edward Teller

source: 2 page advertisement sponsored by Dresser Industries in the "Wall Street Journal", July 31, 1979.

topic: Heart, Islands, Media, Three Mile Island, News Media

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.

- William Scranton

topic: Morning, Islands, Water, Press Conferences, Three Mile Island

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.

- William Scranton

topic: Morning, Islands, Eight, Three Mile Island

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Presence Of Mind, Islands, Bottles, Chili, Three Mile Island

The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

- Thomas Frank

topic: Hero, Islands, Would Be, Watergate, Three Mile Island