Peter A. Bradford is a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission who teaches energy policy and law at the Vermont Law School. He is the author of Fragile Structures: A Story of Oil Refineries, National Security and the Coast of Maine and has written many articles. He served on various advisory panels and expert groups relating to nuclear power. He participated in a 1968 Ralph Nader-sponsored study of the Federal Trade Commission. Bradford has a law degree from Yale Law School. Early life and education Bradford is the son of Carol Warburg Rothschild (d. 2005) and Amory Howe Bradford (d. 1998). His father was the general manager of The New York Times and the son of Congregational minister Arthur Howe Bradford. His mother was the granddaughter of Felix M. Warburg and Simon F. Rothschild; and the great-granddaughter of Abraham Abraham and Jacob Schiff. His parents divorced in 1963 and his mother remarried in 1965 to diplomat Charles P. Noyes. He has one brother, David A. Bradford, and three sisters, Carola Bradford Lea, Madhavi Bradford, and Deborah Bradford. He is a 1964 graduate of Yale University and received his law degree from the Yale Law School in 1968. Career Peter A. Bradford is a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and former chair of the Maine and New York utility commissions. He teaches energy policy and law at the Vermont Law School and has taught at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is the author of Fragile Structures: A Story of Oil Refineries, National Security and the Coast of Maine and has written many articles. He is Vice-Chair of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He served on a panel advising the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on how best to replace the remaining Chernobyl nuclear power plants. He was part of an expert panel advising the Austrian Institute for Risk Reduction on issues associated with the opening of the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant in western Slovakia. He also participated in a 1968 Ralph Nader-sponsored study of the Federal Trade Commission: The Nader Report on the Federal Trade Commission. Views on nuclear power Bradford has discussed the historic management disasters embodied by dollar losses to the extent of nine-figures at Shoreham, Seabrook, Washington Public Power Supply System, and Midland sites. Bradford argues that nuclear power is not a magic-bullet answer to climate change. He has