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'''Mycle Schneider''' (pronounce ''[[Michael]]'', /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in [[Cologne]])<ref name=rla/> is a Paris-based [[Nuclear power|nuclear energy]] consultant, nuclear energy expert, and anti-nuclear activist<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 |accessdate=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 |accessdate=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 20twenty 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=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 20twenty years.<ref name=bangpost/> From 1998 to 2003, Schneider advisedwas an adviser on energy policy forto 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 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 }}</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> 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 |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 "Antianti-Nuclearnuclear Activistactivist".<ref>{{cite web|title=Right livelihood award for anti-nuclear activists {{!}} Wise International|url=https://www.wiseinternational.org/node/1885|website=www.wiseinternational.org|accessdate=18 September 2020}}</ref>
 
==Awards==