'''Mycle Schneider''' (pronounce ''[[Michael]]'', /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in [[Cologne]])<ref name=rla/> is a Paris-based, self-claimed [[Nuclear power|nuclear energy]] consultant, and lead author of ''[[The World Nuclear Industry Status Report]]s''. He has providedadvised consultingmembers servicesof tothe aEuropean variety customersParliament on energy issues,includingfor somemore membersthan of20 the European Parliamentyears.<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=2010-06-20 }}</ref><ref name=bangpost/>
==Biography==
Mycle Schneider is an 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/> who has been adviser to members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than 20 years.<ref name=bangpost/> 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.<ref name=bangpost/> He has also provided energy consulting for the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/808325 |title=Radical refit proposal |author=Rob Linke |date=September 30, 2009 |work=Telegraph-Journal }}</ref>
Schneider was onceis 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 }}</ref> in 2007, 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> 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.<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 |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 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</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'Anti-nuclearNuclear activist"Activist'.<ref>http://www.wiseinternational.org/node/1885</ref>
