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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 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 |access-date=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 |access-date=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 twenty 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/>

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'''Mycle Schneider''' (pronounced ''[[Michael (given name)|Michael]]'', /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in [[Cologne]])<ref name=rla/> is a German [[Nuclear power|nuclear energy]] consultant and anti-nuclear activist based in Paris.<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 |access-date=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 |access-date=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 twenty 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=20 June 2010 }}</ref><ref name=bangpost/>


==Biography==
==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>, 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/>
Mycle Schneider is a 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> 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 }}</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 |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>
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=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=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=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.
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.


==Awards==
==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."<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 }} p. 3.</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=25 June 2008 }} p. 3.</ref>


==Publications==
==Publications==
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>[http://www.multi-science.co.uk/nuclear_power.htm International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power]</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 |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=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>
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=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 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>


==See also==
==See also==
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*[[Anti-nuclear movement in France]]
*[[Anti-nuclear movement in France]]
*[[Non-nuclear future]]
*[[Non-nuclear future]]
*[[Stephen Thomas (professor)|Stephen Thomas]]
*[[Stephen Thomas (economist)|Stephen Thomas]]
*[[Amory Lovins]]
*[[Amory Lovins]]
*[[Monique Sené]]
*[[Monique Sené]]
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==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
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==External links==
==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081118161650/http://www.rightlivelihood.org/schneider_publications.html Publications by Mycle Schneider]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081118161650/http://www.rightlivelihood.org/schneider_publications.html Publications by Mycle Schneider]
*[http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/ The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports website]
*[http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/ The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports website]
*{{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, 2008 | url = http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-reality-of-frances-aggressive-nuclear-power-push | access-date = August 17, 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, 2009 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}
*{{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 = 3 June 2008 | url = http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-reality-of-frances-aggressive-nuclear-power-push | access-date = 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 = 14 October 2009 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}
*[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20081127f1.html Rokkasho plant too dangerous, costly: expert]
*[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20081127f1.html Rokkasho plant too dangerous, costly: expert]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080719220527/http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/749/38744 Nuclear power and climate change]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080719220527/http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/749/38744 Nuclear power and climate change]

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Schneider in 2019

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

Biography

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Mycle Schneider is a self-taught[5] energy consultant,[4] nuclear analyst,[6] and anti-nuclear activist[7] who has been adviser to Green members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than twenty years.[4] 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.[4]

Schneider is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials,[8] and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at Hamburg University.[4][9] 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.[6]

Mycle Schneider founded the "citizen's science"[10] group WISE-Paris in 1983 and directed it until 2003.

Awards

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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Right Livelihood Award: 1997 – Mycle Schneider Archived 20 June 2010 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. ^ "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". www.assemblee-nationale.fr. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  6. ^ a b "2008 World nuclear industry status report: Global nuclear power". Archived from the original on 19 December 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  7. ^ "Right livelihood award for anti-nuclear activists | Wise International". www.wiseinternational.org. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  8. ^ International Panel on Fissile Materials – Members Archived 27 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Project Participants - iGSE Members
  10. ^ Mycle Schneider. The Citizens Science Concept – The Role of Independent and Counter-Expertise[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 Archived 25 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine p. 3.
  12. ^ "International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
  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 10 September 2011.
  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 (15 March 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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