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Mycle Schneider in 2010

Mycle Schneider (pronounce Michael, /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in Cologne)[1] is a Paris-based nuclear energy consultant, nuclear energy expert,[2][3] and lead author of The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports. He has advised members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than 20 years.[4] In 1997 he received the Right Livelihood Award.[1][4]

Biography

Mycle Schneider is an energy consultant[4] and nuclear analyst,[5] who has been adviser to members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than 20 years.[4] From 1998 to 2003, Schneider advised on energy policy for 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] He has also provided energy consulting for the International Atomic Energy Agency.[6]

Schneider is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials,[7] and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at Hamburg University.[4][8] Since 2004, 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.[5]

Mycle Schneider founded the "citizen's science"[9] group WISE-Paris in 1983 and directed it until 2003. Schneider has been described as a global authority on the viability and future of nuclear energy.[10]

Awards

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

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

References

  1. ^ a b c Right Livelihood Award: 1997 – Mycle Schneider Archived 2010-06-20 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. ^ a b "2008 World nuclear industry status report: Global nuclear power". Archived from the original on 2008-12-19. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
  6. ^ Rob Linke (September 30, 2009). "Radical refit proposal". Telegraph-Journal.
  7. ^ International Panel on Fissile Materials – Members Archived 2010-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Project Participants - iGSE Members
  9. ^ Mycle Schneider. The Citizens Science Concept – The Role of Independent and Counter-Expertise[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ https://www.renewable-ei.org/pdfdownload/activities/REI_NuclearReport_201902_EN.pdf
  11. ^ The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 Archived 2008-06-25 at the Wayback Machine p. 3.
  12. ^ International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power
  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 2011-09-10.
  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 (March 15, 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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