''If a Secretary of Agriculture endorsed better meat inspection, you wouldn't have a debate of near religious fervor about whether that person was pro- or anti-meat, whether he had sold out to the vegetarians.
You'd debate whether the stricter regulations made sense. It's somehow unique to nuclear power that, when one refuses to have nuclear power on the industry's terms, one gets chucked into a bin labeled 'anti-nuclear.' ''
-Peter A. Bradford (pictured above), former Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (who served during the Three Mile Island meltdown), 3/9/82. Bradford now teaches at Vermont Law School, serves on the board of directors of Union of Concerned Scientists, and is outspoken against the risks of nuclear power subsidies to taxpayers and ratepayers, as well as the risks of rollbacks to nuclear safety regulations.