Mycle Schneider

Nuclear Energy consultant

Mycle Schneider (born 1959 in Cologne)[1] is a German energy consultant,[2] and lead author of The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports. In 1997 he received the Right Livelihood Award.

Mycle Schneider

Life and work change

Mycle Schneider is a nuclear energy expert based in Paris 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.[3]

Schneider is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials,[4] and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at Hamburg University.[2][5] Since 2004 he has overseen the Environment and Energy Strategies lecture series for the Environmental and Energy Engineering Program at the French École des Mines in Nantes.[6]

Award change

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][7]

Publications change

Schneider writes many publications on the safety 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.[8] 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.[9] Also in 2010, Schneider wrote a chapter in the book Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks.[10] He has commented extensively on the implications of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.[11][12]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Right Livelihood Award: 1997 – Mycle Schneider". Archived from the original on 2010-06-20. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Nuclear Dead End Bangkok Post, 15 April 2010.
  3. Rob Linke (September 30, 2009). "Radical refit proposal". Telegraph-Journal.
  4. "International Panel on Fissile Materials – Members". Archived from the original on 2010-03-27. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  5. "Project Participants - iGSE Members". Archived from the original on 2007-06-26. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  6. "2008 World nuclear industry status report: Global nuclear power". Archived from the original on 2008-12-19. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  7. The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine p. 3.
  8. "International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  9. 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. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  10. Mycle Schneider (December 2010). "Nuclear Power Made in France – A Model?". Strategic Studies Institute – US Army War College. pp. 189–277. Archived from the original on 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  11. Mycle Schneider (23 March 2011). "Nuclear Cloud Comes With Aura of Arrogance". Bloomberg News.
  12. Mycle Schneider (March 15, 2011). "Fire in the spent fuel pool of Unit 4 at Fukushima-I". International Panel on Fissile Materials.