along with Japan's Jinzaburo Takagi, he received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the " Alternative Nobel Prize. " Antony Froggatt works as independent European energy consultant based in London. Since 1997, he has worked as a freelance researcher and writer on energy and nuclear policy issues in the EU and neighboring states. He has worked extensively on EU energy issues for European governments, the European Commission and Parliament, environmental NGOs, commercial bodies, and media. He has given evidence to inquiries and hearings in the parliaments of Austria, Germany, and the EU. He is a part time senior research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs – Chatham House in London. Antony works intensively with environmental groups across Europe, particularly on energy markets and policy and helped to establish a network on energy efficiency. He is a regular speaker at conferences, universities, and training programs across the region. Prior to working freelance, Antony served for nine years as a nuclear campaigner and co-coordinator for Greenpeace International. where he has been senior researcher since 2001. He holds a BSc (honors) degree in Chemistry from Bristol University and has been working in energy policy analysis since 1976. His main research interests are reforms of energy industries, economics, and policy toward nuclear power, and corporate policies of energy industry companies.Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank Amory B. Lovins, Rebecca Harms, and Chris Flavin for their support for this project. The project coordinator wishes to express his sincere gratitude to his co-authors for their invaluable contributions, creative thinking, and impeccable reliability. Thank you also to M.V. Ramana and Walt Patterson for their useful comments on a draft version of the report. Special thanks to Julie Hazemann who has not only contributed the fundamental database work but who has been throughout a permanent, rock-solid support under insupportable conditions. Finally, a big thanks to Lisa Mastny for her editing efforts under impossible time constraints. have again performed a vital public service by preparing this uniquely independent, thorough, and timely assessment of the global status of nuclear power, both before and after the Fukushima disaster began to unfold on March 11, 2011. From Beijing and London to Tokyo and Washington, energy bureaucracies have for decades been pervaded by nuclear enthusiasm. The past few years, for the first time in history, also saw most major governments led by advocates of nuclear power. The media are saturated …
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