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Mycle Schneider (pronounce Michael, /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in Cologne)[1] is a Paris-based nuclear energy consultant, 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.[2] In 1997 he received the Right Livelihood Award.[1][2]
Biography
Mycle Schneider is an energy consultant[2] and nuclear analyst,[3] who has been adviser to members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than 20 years.[2] 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.[2] He has also provided energy consulting for the International Atomic Energy Agency.[4]
Schneider is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials,[5] and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at Hamburg University.[2][6] 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.[3]
Mycle Schneider founded the "citizen's science"[7] group WISE-Paris in 1983 and directed it until 2003. Schneider has been described as an 'Anti-Nuclear Activist'.[8]
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][2][9]
Publications
Schneider writes numerous publications on safety, proliferation and economic trends of the nuclear industry.[2] He is co-editor of the 2009 book International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power.[10] His World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 was published by the German government.[2] Schneider and Antony Froggatt wrote the Systems for Change report for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in 2010.[11] Also in 2010, Schneider wrote a chapter in the book Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks.[12] He has commented extensively on the implications of the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents.[13][14][15]
See also
- Anti-nuclear movement in Canada
- Anti-nuclear movement in France
- Non-nuclear future
- Stephen Thomas
- Amory Lovins
- Monique Sené
References
- ^ a b c Right Livelihood Award: 1997 – Mycle Schneider Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Nuclear Dead End Bangkok Post, 15 April 2010.
- ^ a b "2008 World nuclear industry status report: Global nuclear power". Archived from the original on 2008-12-19. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Rob Linke (September 30, 2009). "Radical refit proposal". Telegraph-Journal.
- ^ International Panel on Fissile Materials – Members Archived 2010-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Project Participants - iGSE Members
- ^ Mycle Schneider. The Citizens Science Concept – The Role of Independent and Counter-Expertise[permanent dead link]
- ^ http://www.wiseinternational.org/node/1885
- ^ The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 Archived 2008-06-25 at the Wayback Machine p. 3.
- ^ International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power
- ^ 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.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Mycle Schneider (December 2010). "Nuclear Power Made in France – A Model?". Strategic Studies Institute – US Army War College. pp. 189–277.
- ^ Mycle Schneider (23 March 2011). "Nuclear Cloud Comes With Aura of Arrogance". Bloomberg News.
- ^ Mycle Schneider (March 15, 2011). "Fire in the spent fuel pool of Unit 4 at Fukushima-I". International Panel on Fissile Materials.
- ^ Mycle Schneider (19 April 2012). "Post-Fukushima nuclear allergy spreads in France". The Japan Times.
Further reading
- Mycle Schneider; Antony Froggatt (September/October 2012 vol. 68 no. 5). "2011-2012 world nuclear industry status report". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. pp. 8–22.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Unknown parameter|lastauthoramp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help) - Mycle Schneider (9 September 2011). "Fukushima crisis: Can Japan be at the forefront of an authentic paradigm shift?". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Archived from the original on 6 January 2013.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - Mycle Schneider; Antony Froggatt; Steve Thomas (July 2011). "2010-2011 world nuclear industry status report". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|last-author-amp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help) - Mycle Schneider, Antony Froggatt, and Steve Thomas (2011). World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010-2011: Nuclear Power in a Post-Fukushima World, Worldwatch Institute.
- Mycle Schneider, Steve Thomas, Antony Froggatt, and Doug Koplow (August 2009). The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 Commissioned by German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety.
- Mycle Schneider, Steve Thomas, Antony Froggatt, and Doug Koplow. (November 2009, Vol. 65 No. 6). 2009 World Nuclear Industry Status Report Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, pp. 1–19
External links
- Publications by Mycle Schneider
- The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports website
- Schneider, Mycle (June 3, 2008). "The reality of France's aggressive nuclear power push". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Archived from the original on October 14, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
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- Nuclear power and climate change
- We are Betting on The Wrong Horse
- The End of Nuclear, Worldwatch Institute, 2011.
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