Mycle Schneider

Mycle Schneider during a speech to the Heinrich Böll Foundation (September 2010)

Mycle Schneider (* 1959 in Cologne ) is a German energy and nuclear policy advisor. He does not have an academic title, but has acquired his knowledge of nuclear energy as an autodidact.

Life

Mycle Schneider advises politicians, institutions and non-governmental organizations on the civil and military use of nuclear energy , including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Greenpeace International , the Organization International Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). the UNESCO , the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF), the European Commission , the French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), the Science and Technology Options Assessment Committee whichever of the European Parliament (STOA), the Oxford Research Group ( ORG), the French National Research Council (CNRS), the Belgian Environment and French Energy Ministries (1998 to 2003).

In 1983 he set up a branch of the World Information Service on Energy (WISE) energy information center in Paris because, in his opinion, there was a lack of information on issues relating to the civil and military use of nuclear energy in France. In addition to his work as managing director of WISE from 1983 to 2003, he was editor-in-chief of the online service Plutonium Investigation .

In his capacity as an energy expert, he has lectured at 18 universities in nine countries and in 14 national parliaments and has appeared as a guest speaker at parliamentary hearings in various countries.

In 1991 he was invited by the Japanese nuclear chemist Jinzaburō Takagi to an international plutonium conference in Japan, which led to a long-term collaboration between the two, which culminated in 1997 with the presentation of the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize).

Since 2004 he has held the chair for environmental and energy concepts in the master’s program International Project Management for Environmental and Energy Engineering at the Ecole des Mines in Nantes .

From 2000 to 2010 he occasionally worked as an expert for the German Ministry of the Environment .

The results of his work were the basis for reporting in many media, such as B. the TV channels ARD , ZDF , Arte , French and Japanese TV channels, German radio stations, the British newspapers Guardian and Observer , the New Scientist , the French newspapers Le Monde , Le Figaro and L'Express and Liberation or the German print media SPIEGEL , Die Zeit , Frankfurter Rundschau , the taz and Japanese newspapers and magazines.

Mycle Schneider is co-author of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report , which appears annually with the support of the Swiss Energy Foundation (SES) and is published by the Worldwatch Institute , Greenpeace International and WISE Paris.

Others

Mycle Schneider is a member of the Takagi Fund for Citizen Science, which is based in Tokyo . Schneider lives near Paris.

Awards

In 1997 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award together with Jinzaburō Takagi "for his warnings about the unprecedented dangers of plutonium for mankind" .

Publications

• Wackersdorf is dead - long live LaHague? , Greenpeace, Hamburg 1990

Web links

Commons : Mycle Schneider  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Portrait (as PDF download)
• World Nuclear Industry Status Report

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernward Janzing : Portrait: Recognized atomic autodidact. new energy from February 27, 2015
2. ↑ Bernward Janzing: Portrait: Recognized atomic autodidact. new energy from February 27, 2015
3. ↑ Interview at franzalt.de
4. ↑ The Right Livelihood Award ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.