Mycle Schneider works as an independent, international energy and nuclear policy consultant. He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) based at Princetown University, America and the initiator and main author of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report. In 1997 Mycle Schneider together with the Japanese scientist, Jinzaburo Takagi, received the Alternative Nobel Prize for their work on the plutonium economy.