In 1983 , he was picked by New York Governor Mario Cuomo to chair a scientific fact-finding commission on the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant , a job that required him to find common ground between the many viewpoints represented on the commission . The commission eventually recommended the closure of the plant , a course he personally disagreed with . Cuomo had formed the commission in mid-May 1983 to provide him with recommendations regarding the plant 's safety , the adequacy of emergency plans , and the economics of operating the plant . The commission 's consensus recommendations included unanimous findings that no emergency evacuation of the plant could be conducted without the cooperation of Suffolk County , which was refusing to approve an evacuation plan ; that the construction of the plant would have been prevented if it had been started after new Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations were put into effect after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 ; and that operating the plant would not reduce utility costs . Marburger himself at the time emphasized that the governor had not been seeking a consensus but rather encouraged multiple viewpoints to be reflected , and characterized the consensus conclusions as not the only important section of the report
Three Mile Island accident
Three Mile Island accident
John Marburger