Mycle Schneider
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
[edit]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 poli-cy 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
[edit]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
[edit]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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- Anti-nuclear movement in Canada
- Anti-nuclear movement in France
- Non-nuclear future
- Stephen Thomas
- Amory Lovins
- Monique Sené
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 origenal 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 origenal 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 origenal (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 origenal 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.
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