What is Mycle Schneider?
[[File:Flickr - boellstiftung - Mycle Schneider (1).jpg|thumb|Mycle Schneider]] '''Mycle Schneider''' (born 1959 in [[Cologne]])<ref name=rla/> is a [[Germany|German]] energy consultant,<ref name=bangpost>[http://www.bangkokpost.com/feature/environment/36095/nuclear-dead-end Nuclear Dead End] ''Bangkok Post'', 15 April 2010.</ref> and lead author of ''The [[World Nuclear Industry Status Report]]s''. In 1997 he received the [[Right Livelihood Award]]. ==Life and work== Mycle Schneider is a [[nuclear energy]] expert based in Paris who has been adviser to members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than 20 years.<ref name=bangpost/> From 1998 to 2003, Schneider advised on energy policy for 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.<ref name=bangpost/> He has also provided energy consulting for the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/808325 |title=Radical refit proposal |author=Rob Linke |date=September 30, 2009 |work=Telegraph-Journal }}</ref> Schneider is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fissilematerials.org/ipfm/pages_us_en/about/members/members.php |title=International Panel on Fissile Materials – Members |access-date=2011-05-07 |archive-date=2010-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327211813/http://www.fissilematerials.org/ipfm/pages_us_en/about/members/members.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the nuclear non-proliferation group Independent Group of Scientific Experts (IGSE), which is based at [[Hamburg University]].<ref name=bangpost/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.igse.net/index.php?id=10 |title=Project Participants - iGSE Members |access-date=2011-05-07 |archive-date=2007-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626180036/http://www.igse.net/index.php?id=10 |url-status=dead }}</r