Posted by Douglas Murray on October 26, 2012:

My father, William Murray, worked for General Public Utilities which generated electricity for New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He was Vice Prresident of Communications for the company at the time of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania in 1979 at that company. He later wrote and published a book about his experiences and what happened during the recovery from the accident, based on interviews with those directly involved. On the back cover he had a very brief biography that went as follows Mr Murray was graduated from West Point in 1944. Following the end of World War II, he received a Masters in Nuclear Science from Princeton University. Then began a 27 year career in the nuclear energy field including work at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and at Sandia Base, New Mexico. He went on to serve as a Nuclear Program Manager and later Vice President of Marketing at Rockwell International's Atomics International Division for 18 years. Following this, he joined General Public Utilities where he was Vice President of Communications during the Three Mile Island accident and the recovery period described in NUCLEAR TURNAROUND. He is currently retired and living in Southern California where between talks about the energy world he pursues watercolor painting and Civil War history. The book covered the period from 1979-1989 and was published in 2003.

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