Mycle Schneider (pronounced ''

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'', /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

) is a Paris-based nuclear energy consultant and anti-nuclear activist. He is the lead author of '' The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports''. He has advised members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than twenty years. In 1997 he received the

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.Right Livelihood Award: 1997 – Mycle Schneider

Biography

Mycle Schneider is a self-taught energy consultant,Nuclear Dead End
''Bangkok Post'', 15 April 2010. nuclear analyst, and anti-nuclear activist who has been adviser to

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members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than twenty years. From 1998 to 2003, Schneider was an adviser on

energy policy Energy policy is the manner in which a given entity (often governmental) has decided to address issues of energy development including energy conversion, distribution and use as well as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in order to contr ...

to the French environment minister's office and the Belgian minister for energy and sustainable development. Since 2000, he has been a consultant on nuclear issues to the German environment ministry. Schneider is a member of the

International Panel on Fissile Materials The International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), established in 2006, is a group of independent nuclear experts from 17 countries: Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, South Korea, Russia, South ...

, and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at

Hamburg University The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vo ...

. From 2004 to 2009, he has overseen the Environment and Energy Strategies lecture series for the Environmental and Energy Engineering Program at the French Ecole des Mines in Nantes. Mycle Schneider founded the "citizen's science" group WISE-Paris in 1983 and directed it until 2003.

Awards

In 1997, along with

Jinzaburo Takagi was a Japanese assistant professor in nuclear chemistry. He wrote several books on environment protection, and on the threat of nuclear waste. He was given the ''Yoko Tada Human Rights Award'' in 1992, and the ''Ihatobe Award'' in 1994. He was awa ...

, Schneider received the

"... for serving to alert the world to the unparalleled dangers of

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to human life."

Publications

Schneider writes numerous publications on safety, proliferation and economic trends of the nuclear industry. He is co-editor of the 2009 book ''International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power''. His World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 was published by the German government. Schneider and

Antony Froggatt Antony Froggatt is an energy policy consultant and a senior research fellow at Chatham House. He is co-author of ''The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports''. Biography Antony Froggatt is a senior research fellow in the Energy, Environment and Dev ...

wrote the ''Systems for Change'' report for the

Heinrich Böll Foundation The Heinrich Böll Foundation (german: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e.V., HBS) is a German, legally independent political foundation. Affiliated with the German Green Party, it was founded in 1997 when three predecessors merged. The foundation was n ...

in 2010. Also in 2010, Schneider wrote a chapter in the book ''Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks''. He has commented extensively on the implications of the

2011 Japanese nuclear accidents The was a nuclear accident in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan. The proximate cause of the disaster was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which occurred on the afternoon of 11 March 2011 and ...

References

External links

Publications by Mycle SchneiderThe World Nuclear Industry Status Reports website
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, 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Schneider, Mycle People associated with nuclear power Sustainability advocates Living people 1959 births Writers from Cologne French anti–nuclear power activists

Biography

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