Peter Bradford

Professor Peter Bradford is a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the former chair of the New York and Maine utility regulatory commissions. He has taught at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and is currently an adjunct professor at Vermont Law School, where he teaches Nuclear Power and Public Policy. A member of the China Sustainable Energy Policy Council, he served on a panel evaluating the reliability of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Panel advising how best to replace the remaining Chernobyl nuclear plants in Ukraine, a panel on the opening of the Mochovce nuclear power plant in Slovakia, and the Keystone Center collaborative on nuclear power and climate change. He is the author of "Fragile Structures: A Story of Oil Refineries, National Securities and the Coast of Maine" and many articles. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale Law School and is vice chair of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists.