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]
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Biography
editMycle 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
editIn 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
editSchneider 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
edit- ^ a b c Right Livelihood Award: 1997 – Mycle Schneider Archived 20 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ O'Grady, Cathleen (27 September 2019). "Nuclear slower and pricier than renewables, says anti-nuclear report". Ars Technica. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ "Nuclear industry decline inevitable global trend: expert". The Korea Herald. 6 December 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Nuclear Dead End Bangkok Post, 15 April 2010.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b "2008 World nuclear industry status report: Global nuclear power". Archived from the original on 19 December 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
- ^ "Right livelihood award for anti-nuclear activists | Wise International". www.wiseinternational.org. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ International Panel on Fissile Materials – Members Archived 27 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Project Participants - iGSE Members
- ^ Mycle Schneider. The Citizens Science Concept – The Role of Independent and Counter-Expertise[permanent dead link]
- ^ The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 Archived 25 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine p. 3.
- ^ "International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mycle Schneider (December 2010). "Nuclear Power Made in France – A Model?". Strategic Studies Institute – US Army War College. pp. 189–277.
- ^ Mycle Schneider (23 March 2011). "Nuclear Cloud Comes With Aura of Arrogance". Bloomberg News.
- ^ Mycle Schneider (15 March 2011). "Fire in the spent fuel pool of Unit 4 at Fukushima-I". International Panel on Fissile Materials.
- ^ Mycle Schneider (19 April 2012). "Post-Fukushima nuclear allergy spreads in France". The Japan Times.
External links
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- Publications by Mycle Schneider
- The World Nuclear Industry Status Reports website
- Schneider, Mycle (June 3, 2008). "The reality of France's aggressive nuclear power push". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Archived from the original on October 14, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
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- Nuclear power and climate change
- We are Betting on The Wrong Horse
- The End of Nuclear, Worldwatch Institute, 2011.