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O’Donnell: Has any government in the history of nuclear power plant disasters ever actually overreacted? Isn’t the pattern to under-react and understate because they fear creating any sense of panic in the population?

Gunter: As history will demonstrate, when this particular technology loses control of the reactors, the first thing they try to do is control the information. After the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, it took THREE days before Governor Thornburgh ADVISED children and pregnant woman to leave Harrisburg. It was THREE days after the Chernobyl accident in 1986 when the Swedish government announced high radiation fields going over their nuclear power plants, and THEN we found out that it was coming from a reactor accident fifteen hundred miles away.

Information is really the first casualty with this particular technology and I think that history is repeating itself once again.