Mycle Schneider

Mycle Schneider is a self-taught{{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}} energy consultant,[http://www.bangkokpost.com/feature/environment/36095/nuclear-dead-end Nuclear Dead End] Bangkok Post, 15 April 2010. nuclear analyst, and anti-nuclear activist{{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}} who has been adviser to Green members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than twenty years. 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.

Schneider is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials,[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 }} and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at Hamburg University.[http://www.igse.net/index.php?id=10 Project Participants - iGSE Members] 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.{{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 }}

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

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."[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.

Schneider writes numerous publications on safety, proliferation and economic trends of the nuclear industry. He is co-editor of the 2009 book International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power.{{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 }} His World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 was published by the German government. Schneider and Antony Froggatt wrote the Systems for Change report for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in 2010.{{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 }} Also in 2010, Schneider wrote a chapter in the book Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks.{{cite web |url=http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=1041 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122105858/http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1041 |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 January 2011 |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}} He has commented extensively on the implications of the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents.{{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 }}{{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 }}{{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 }}

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• Anti-nuclear movement in Canada
• Anti-nuclear movement in France
• Non-nuclear future
• Stephen Thomas
• Amory Lovins
• Monique Sené

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• [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]
• {{cite web | last = Schneider | first = Mycle | title = The reality of France's aggressive nuclear power push | publisher = thebulletin.org | 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]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080719220527/http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/749/38744 Nuclear power and climate change]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110707184059/http://www.atlantic-times.com/archive_detail.php?recordID=1194 We are Betting on The Wrong Horse]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110430162240/http://www.worldwatch.org/end-nuclear The End of Nuclear], Worldwatch Institute, 2011.

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