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'''Mycle Schneider''' (pronounced ''[[Michael (given name)|Michael]]'', /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in [[Cologne]])<ref name=rla/> is a German independent [[Nuclear power|nuclear energy]] analyst and consultant based in Paris. He is the lead author of ''[https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/-The-Annual-Reports-.html The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports,]'' a publication with one of the world's most comprehensive data sets on the nuclear industry.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2024-03-14 |title=Seminar: World Nuclear Industry Status Report |url=https://www.chalmers.se/en/current/calendar/world-nuclear-industry-status-report-2023/ |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=www.chalmers.se |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=David |first=O'Byrne |date=April 8, 2024 |title=Nuclear Power: Past, Present, and Future |url=https://www.lu.se/evenemang/nuclear-power-past-present-and-future |access-date=May 22, 2024 |website=Lund University}}</ref> Schneider is oftentimes labeled an "anti-nuclear activist" by people and organisations advocating for nuclear power. <ref>{{cite news |first=Cathleen |last=O'Grady |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/nuclear-slower-and-pricier-than-renewables-says-anti-nuclear-report/ |title=Nuclear slower and pricier than renewables, says anti-nuclear report |publisher=[[Ars Technica]] |date=27 September 2019 |access-date=18 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20181206000652|title=Nuclear industry decline inevitable global trend: expert |publisher=[[The Korea Herald]] |date=6 December 2018 |access-date=16 January 2020}}</ref>. He has advised members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than twenty years.<ref name=bangpost/> In 1997 he received the [[Right Livelihood Award]].<ref name="rla">[https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/mycle-schneider/ Right Livelihood Award: 1997 – Mycle Schneider] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620073838/http://rightlivelihood.org/schneider.html|date=20 June 2010}}</ref><ref name=bangpost/>
'''Mycle Schneider''' (pronounced ''[[Michael (given name)|Michael]]'', /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in [[Cologne]])<ref name=rla/> is a German [[Nuclear power|nuclear energy]] consultant and anti-nuclear activist based in Paris.<ref>{{cite news |first=Cathleen |last=O'Grady |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/nuclear-slower-and-pricier-than-renewables-says-anti-nuclear-report/ |title=Nuclear slower and pricier than renewables, says anti-nuclear report |publisher=[[Ars Technica]] |date=27 September 2019 |access-date=18 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20181206000652|title=Nuclear industry decline inevitable global trend: expert |publisher=[[The Korea Herald]] |date=6 December 2018 |access-date=16 January 2020}}</ref> He is the lead author of ''[[The World Nuclear Industry Status Report]]s''. He has advised members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than twenty years.<ref name=bangpost/> In 1997 he received the [[Right Livelihood Award]].<ref name=rla>[http://www.rightlivelihood.org/schneider.html Right Livelihood Award: 1997 – Mycle Schneider] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620073838/http://rightlivelihood.org/schneider.html |date=20 June 2010 }}</ref><ref name=bangpost/>


==Biography==
==Biography==
Mycle Schneider is a renowned, self-taught<ref>{{Cite web |title=Assemblée nationale ~ Comptes rendus de la commission d'enquête relative aux coûts passés, présents et futurs de la filière nucléaire, à la durée d'exploitation des réacteurs et à divers aspects économiques et financiers de la production et de la commercialisation de l'électricité nucléaire |url=https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/cr-cenucleaire/13-14/c1314041.asp |access-date=30 March 2022 |website=www.assemblee-nationale.fr}}</ref>, energy consultant <ref name=bangpost>[http://www.bangkokpost.com/feature/environment/36095/nuclear-dead-end Nuclear Dead End] ''Bangkok Post'', 15 April 2010.</ref> and nuclear analyst <ref name=wis/> that is frequently interviewed on nuclear energy issues in international media.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stanway and Gardner |first=David and Timothy |date=2023-12-07 |title=Nuclear sector must overcome decades of stagnation to meet COP28 tripling goal |url=https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/nuclear-sector-must-overcome-decades-stagnation-meet-cop28-tripling-goal-2023-12-07/ |work=Reuters}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ihédate |last2=ihedate |date=2024-04-02 |title=WNISR in the Media |url=https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/-WNISR-in-the-Media-.html |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=World Nuclear Industry Status Report}}</ref> Over decades, he has served as an advisor on energy policy to members of Parliaments and lectured at prominent universities around the world. Schneider is repeatedly labeled "anti-nuclear activist", mainly by people and organisations promoting nuclear energy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Right livelihood award for anti-nuclear activists |website=Wise International|url=https://www.wiseinternational.org/node/1885|access-date=18 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Antikärnkraft-aktivist presenteras som expert av Birgitta Forsberg i SvD |url=https://naringslivets-medieinstitut.se/antikarnkraft-aktivist-presenteras-som-expert-av-birgitta-forsberg-i-svd/ |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=Näringslivets medieinstitut |language=sv-SE}}</ref>
Mycle Schneider is a self-taught<ref>{{Cite web |title=Assemblée nationale ~ Comptes rendus de la commission d'enquête relative aux coûts passés, présents et futurs de la filière nucléaire, à la durée d'exploitation des réacteurs et à divers aspects économiques et financiers de la production et de la commercialisation de l'électricité nucléaire |url=https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/cr-cenucleaire/13-14/c1314041.asp |access-date=30 March 2022 |website=www.assemblee-nationale.fr}}</ref> energy consultant,<ref name=bangpost>[http://www.bangkokpost.com/feature/environment/36095/nuclear-dead-end Nuclear Dead End] ''Bangkok Post'', 15 April 2010.</ref> nuclear analyst,<ref name=wis/> and anti-nuclear activist<ref>{{cite web|title=Right livelihood award for anti-nuclear activists {{!}} Wise International|url=https://www.wiseinternational.org/node/1885|website=www.wiseinternational.org|access-date=18 September 2020}}</ref> who has been adviser to [[European Green Party|Green]] members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than twenty years.<ref name=bangpost/> From 1998 to 2003, Schneider was an adviser on [[energy policy]] 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.<ref name=bangpost/>


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Schneider is a member of the [[International Panel on Fissile Materials]],<ref>[http://www.fissilematerials.org/ipfm/pages_us_en/about/members/members.php International Panel on Fissile Materials – Members] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327211813/http://www.fissilematerials.org/ipfm/pages_us_en/about/members/members.php |date=27 March 2010 }}</ref> and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at [[Hamburg University]].<ref name=bangpost/><ref>[http://www.igse.net/index.php?id=10 Project Participants - iGSE Members]</ref> 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.<ref name=wis>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/reports/2008-world-nuclear-industry-status-report/2008-world-nuclear-industry-status-rep |title=2008 World nuclear industry status report: Global nuclear power |access-date=21 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219203147/http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/reports/2008-world-nuclear-industry-status-report/2008-world-nuclear-industry-status-rep |archive-date=19 December 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Schneider is the convening lead author and publisher of ''[https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/-The-Annual-Reports-.html The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports],'' published annually since 2007''.'' The extensive publication (300-600 pages) offers one of the world's most comprehensive data sets on the nuclear industry, put together by an international, interdisciplinary group of experts.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Seminar: status and trends of the global nuclear industry |url=https://www.kth.se/ee/epe/calendar/seminars/seminar-status-and-trends-of-the-global-nuclear-industry-1.1325549 |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=KTH |language=en-GB}}</ref> It provides a thorough overview of nuclear power plant data, including information on operation, production, fleet age, and construction.The annual launch of the report is repeatedly covered by leading international media outlets such as [https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nuclears-share-world-power-output-multi-decade-low-report-2023-12-06/ Reuters] [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/nuclear-s-new-wave-of-popularity-has-to-overcome-age-economics Bloomberg] and [https://www.connaissancedesenergies.org/afp/malgre-un-regain-dinteret-lenergie-nucleaire-peine-decoller-dans-le-monde-selon-un-nouveau-rapport-231206 AFP.].[https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/2024-02-wnisr2023-pressbook-online.pdf]

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Schneider has been adviser to [[European Green Party|Green]] members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than twenty years.<ref name="bangpost" /> From 1998 to 2003, Schneider was an adviser on [[energy policy]] 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.<ref name="bangpost" /> Schneider is a member of the [[International Panel on Fissile Materials]],<ref>[http://www.fissilematerials.org/ipfm/pages_us_en/about/members/members.php International Panel on Fissile Materials – Members] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327211813/http://www.fissilematerials.org/ipfm/pages_us_en/about/members/members.php |date=27 March 2010 }}</ref> and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at [[Hamburg University]].<ref name="bangpost" /><ref>[http://www.igse.net/index.php?id=10 Project Participants - iGSE Members]</ref> 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.<ref name="wis">{{Cite web |url=http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/reports/2008-world-nuclear-industry-status-report/2008-world-nuclear-industry-status-rep |title=2008 World nuclear industry status report: Global nuclear power |access-date=21 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219203147/http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/reports/2008-world-nuclear-industry-status-report/2008-world-nuclear-industry-status-rep |archive-date=19 December 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


Mycle Schneider founded the "citizen's science"<ref>Mycle Schneider. [http://www.ippnw.ch/content/pdf/Sympo_26042002/Schneider.pdf The Citizens Science Concept – The Role of Independent and Counter-Expertise]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> group WISE-Paris in 1983 and directed it until 2003.
Mycle Schneider founded the "citizen's science"<ref>Mycle Schneider. [http://www.ippnw.ch/content/pdf/Sympo_26042002/Schneider.pdf The Citizens Science Concept – The Role of Independent and Counter-Expertise]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> group WISE-Paris in 1983 and directed it until 2003.
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081118161650/http://www.rightlivelihood.org/schneider_publications.html Publications by Mycle Schneider]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081118161650/http://www.rightlivelihood.org/schneider_publications.html Publications by Mycle Schneider]
*[http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/ The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports website]
*[http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/ The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports website]
*{{cite journal | last = Schneider | first = Mycle | title = The reality of France's aggressive nuclear power push | journal = Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists] | date = 3 June 2008 | url = http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-reality-of-frances-aggressive-nuclear-power-push | access-date = 17 August 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091014132832/http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-reality-of-frances-aggressive-nuclear-power-push | archive-date = 14 October 2009 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}
*{{cite web | last = Schneider | first = Mycle | title = The reality of France's aggressive nuclear power push | publisher = [http://thebulletin.org Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists] | date = 3 June 2008 | url = http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-reality-of-frances-aggressive-nuclear-power-push | access-date = 17 August 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091014132832/http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-reality-of-frances-aggressive-nuclear-power-push | archive-date = 14 October 2009 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}
*[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20081127f1.html Rokkasho plant too dangerous, costly: expert]
*[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20081127f1.html Rokkasho plant too dangerous, costly: expert]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080719220527/http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/749/38744 Nuclear power and climate change]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080719220527/http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/749/38744 Nuclear power and climate change]

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Schneider in 2019

Mycle Schneider (pronounced Michael, /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in Cologne)[1] is a German nuclear energy consultant and anti-nuclear activist based in Paris.[2][3] 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.[4] In 1997 he received the Right Livelihood Award.[1][4]

Biography

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Mycle Schneider is a self-taught[5] energy consultant,[4] nuclear analyst,[6] and anti-nuclear activist[7] who has been adviser to Green members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than twenty years.[4] From 1998 to 2003, Schneider was an adviser on energy policy 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.[4]

Schneider is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials,[8] and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at Hamburg University.[4][9] 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.[6]

Mycle Schneider founded the "citizen's science"[10] group WISE-Paris in 1983 and directed it until 2003.

Awards

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In 1997, along with Jinzaburo Takagi, Schneider received the Right Livelihood Award "... for serving to alert the world to the unparalleled dangers of plutonium to human life."[1][4][11]

Publications

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Schneider writes numerous publications on safety, proliferation and economic trends of the nuclear industry.[4] He is co-editor of the 2009 book International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power.[12] His World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 was published by the German government.[4] Schneider and Antony Froggatt wrote the Systems for Change report for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in 2010.[13] Also in 2010, Schneider wrote a chapter in the book Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks.[14] He has commented extensively on the implications of the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents.[15][16][17]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Right Livelihood Award: 1997 – Mycle Schneider Archived 20 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ O'Grady, Cathleen (27 September 2019). "Nuclear slower and pricier than renewables, says anti-nuclear report". Ars Technica. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Nuclear industry decline inevitable global trend: expert". The Korea Herald. 6 December 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Nuclear Dead End Bangkok Post, 15 April 2010.
  5. ^ "Assemblée nationale ~ Comptes rendus de la commission d'enquête relative aux coûts passés, présents et futurs de la filière nucléaire, à la durée d'exploitation des réacteurs et à divers aspects économiques et financiers de la production et de la commercialisation de l'électricité nucléaire". www.assemblee-nationale.fr. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  6. ^ a b "2008 World nuclear industry status report: Global nuclear power". Archived from the original on 19 December 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  7. ^ "Right livelihood award for anti-nuclear activists | Wise International". www.wiseinternational.org. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  8. ^ International Panel on Fissile Materials – Members Archived 27 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Project Participants - iGSE Members
  10. ^ Mycle Schneider. The Citizens Science Concept – The Role of Independent and Counter-Expertise[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 Archived 25 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine p. 3.
  12. ^ "International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
  13. ^ Antony Froggatt with Mycle Schneider (2010). "Systems for Change: Nuclear Power vs. Energy Efficiency+Renewables?" (PDF). Heinrich Böll Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 September 2011.
  14. ^ Mycle Schneider (December 2010). "Nuclear Power Made in France – A Model?". Strategic Studies Institute – US Army War College. pp. 189–277.
  15. ^ Mycle Schneider (23 March 2011). "Nuclear Cloud Comes With Aura of Arrogance". Bloomberg News.
  16. ^ Mycle Schneider (15 March 2011). "Fire in the spent fuel pool of Unit 4 at Fukushima-I". International Panel on Fissile Materials.
  17. ^ Mycle Schneider (19 April 2012). "Post-Fukushima nuclear allergy spreads in France". The Japan Times.
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