said: Even if it is scaled up much faster than anything now in prospect, it cannot provide more than 10 per cent to 15 per cent of the greenhouse gas displacement that is likely to be needed by mid-century. Not only can nuclear power not stop global warming, it is probably not even an essential part of the solution to global warming. In an early-2010 interview, with President Barack Obama's fresh budget proposal to triple available loan guarantees, to $54 billion, for nuclear power plants, Bradford made clear he was not a total opponent of more nuclear. However, Bradford outlined the failure of the $18 billion of guarantees available over the last several years to generate new construction—and even "scandals ... in Florida and in Texas" to do with them --, combined with the high cost of electricity from nuclear and other factors, to specify why he didn't see nuclear as a desirable major source for climate-change mitigation. He saw perhaps the benefit of some limited plant development within the context of a cap and trade regime (not yet in place). Bradford is also serving in 2010 as the chair of a Vermont state legislative oversight panel relative to Entergy Corporation's operation of its Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. The panel was created in June, 2008, made a report in March, 2009, when Bradford was rotating chair, and was scheduled to report again in February, 2010. Bradford says the nuclear renaissance in the United States was just a myth, as the many applications for new reactors in 2009 has led to very little construction. Personal life Bradford married thrice. His first wife was artist Katherine Bradford; they had two children before divorcing, Arthur Bradford and Laura Rothschild Bradford Kirkpatrick. His second wife was Mary Condon; they later divorced. He remarried to Susan Symmers; they have one child, Emily Bradford. References External links Risky Appropriations: Gambling US Energy Policy on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, 2008 report on GNEP. Primary author David A. Schlissel, Senior Consultant, Synapse Energy Economics; contributing authors Robert Alvarez and Peter Bradford. Sponsored by: Friends of the Earth USA, Government Accountability Project, Institute for Policy Studies, and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Why a Future for the Nuclear Industry is Risky, 2007 report Living people American people of German-Jewish descent Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials Yale Law School alumni People associated with nuclear power Year of birth missing (living