minority to put the rest of the country at jeopardy by not having an expansion
 of nuclear power.

P: When you say the small but vocal minority, you are talking about the activists
 who are opposed to the development?

M: That is right.

P: Has it been a problem in this state?

M: It has not been a major problem for us. In fact, we are the only state that
 has had a resolution of the legislature commending nuclear power. The
 activists within the state have been minuscule.

P: They are not getting much media coverage.

M: That is a critical point. Early on we beefed up our communications
 department. When I joined the company all we did was advertise. We
 brought in some expertise. At the time that I joined the company none of
 the company officers would talk to me; they were forbidden to.

P: By Mr. Smith?

M: By Mr. Smith. I was not allowed to make a speech until about a month prior
 to his death, and I had one of the directors go over it with me then--I do not
 know whether he would have gotten a hook and pulled me away from the
 podium or shot me--to report on whether I said or did anything that might be
 considered as ill-advised. We started a campaign of visiting the media and
 trying to educate the media about our industry, our plans, and our problems.
 We also gave effective management training in trying to respond to hostile
 questions in a hostile atmosphere. We have maintained, since then, a fairly
 close contact with the media. We have gone before the editorial boards of
 the major newspapers, we have appeared on television, we have appeared on
 radio, and we have given magazine interviews. We have tried to be as
 responsive to the media as we could as rapidly as we could. We have tried
 to tell them in advance of any problems when we had advance notice of those
 problems. We have also told the Public Service Commission in advance of
 any problems that we had advance notice of. We think that this policy has
 been of a great deal of benefit in the changing of attitudes of a lot of media
 people.

P: Have you done anything with the educational institutions?

M: We have tried to educate some of the professors.

P: I was also thinking of school children.


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