Mycle Schneider

Mycle Schneider (pronounced Michael, /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in Cologne) 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. energy consultant, nuclear analyst, who has been adviser to Green members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than twenty years. and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at Hamburg University. 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.

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

Awards 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."

Publications Schneider writes numerous publications on safety, proliferation and economic trends of the nuclear industry. His World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009 was published by the German government. Also in 2010, Schneider wrote a chapter in the book Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks. He has commented extensively on the implications of the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents.