Mycle Schneider

Mycle Schneider is an energy and nuclear policy consultant based in Paris. He has consulted for the Belgian Energy Minister, the French and German environment ministries, the International Atomic Energy Agency, Greenpeace, the European Commission, and the French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety. He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. Schneider is also a Member of the Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE) on the detection of clandestine nuclear-weapons-usable materials, which is based at Hamburg University. Since 2004 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.

Mycle Schneider founded the World Information Service on Energy (Paris) in 1983 and directed it until 2003. In 1997, along with Jinzaburo Takagi, he received the Right Livelihood Award.

Schneider is co-author of The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 and co-editor of the 2009 book International Perspectives on Energy Policy and the Role of Nuclear Power.

See also

• Anti-nuclear movement in Canada
• Anti-nuclear movement in France
• Non-nuclear future
• Stephen Thomas (professor)
• Pete Roche

Further reading

• Mycle Schneider, Steve Thomas, Antony Froggatt, and Doug Koplow (August 2009). The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 Commissioned by German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety.

External links

• Publications by Mycle Schneider
• Schneider, Mycle (June 3, 2008). "The reality of France's aggressive nuclear power push". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 2009-08-17. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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