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{{shortShort description|NuclearGerman nuclear energy consultant}}

[[File:Mycle Schneider, - Launch of the World Nuclear Waste Report2019 (49085597037cropped).jpg|thumb|Mycle Schneider in 2019]]

Mycle Schneider is ana 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/> 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/>

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=2010-03-27 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=2008-12-21 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=2008-12-19 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. Schneider has been described as an "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>

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."<ref name="rla"/><ref name=bangpost/><ref>[http://www.greens-efa.org/cms/topics/dokbin/206/206749.pdf The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625044818/http://www.greens-efa.org/cms/topics/dokbin/206/206749.pdf |date=2008-06-25 June 2008 }} p. 3.</ref>

Schneider writes numerous publications on safety, proliferation and economic trends of the nuclear industry.<ref name=bangpost/> He is co-editor of the 2009 book ''International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power''.<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.multi-science.co.uk/nuclear_power.htm |title=International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power] |access-date=1 May 2009 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716152943/http://www.multi-science.co.uk/nuclear_power.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> His [[World Nuclear Industry Status Report|World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009]] was published by the German government.<ref name=bangpost/> Schneider and [[Antony Froggatt]] wrote the ''Systems for Change'' report for the [[Heinrich Böll Foundation]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boell.eu/downloads/Froggatt_Schneider_Systems_for_Change.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910235444/http://www.boell.eu/downloads/Froggatt_Schneider_Systems_for_Change.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-09-10 September 2011 |title=Systems for Change: Nuclear Power vs. Energy Efficiency+Renewables? |author=Antony Froggatt with Mycle Schneider |year=2010 |publisher=Heinrich Böll Foundation }}</ref> Also in 2010, Schneider wrote a chapter in the book ''Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=1041 |title=Nuclear Power Made in France – A Model? |author=Mycle Schneider |date=December 2010 |publisher=Strategic Studies Institute – US Army War College |pages=189–277}}</ref> He has commented extensively on the implications of the [[2011 Japanese nuclear accidents]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-23/nuclear-cloud-comes-with-aura-of-arrogance-commentary-by-mycle-schneider.html |title=Nuclear Cloud Comes With Aura of Arrogance |author=Mycle Schneider |date=23 March 2011 |work=Bloomberg News }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fissilematerials.org/blog/ |title=Fire in the spent fuel pool of Unit 4 at Fukushima-I |author=Mycle Schneider |date=15 March 15, 2011 |publisher=International Panel on Fissile Materials }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/eo20120419a1.html |title=Post-Fukushima nuclear allergy spreads in France |author=Mycle Schneider |date=19 April 2012 |work=The Japan Times }}</ref>

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*{{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 = June 3, June 2008 | url = http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-reality-of-frances-aggressive-nuclear-power-push | access-date = August 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 = October 14, October 2009 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}