Nuclear-Free Future Award

Since 1998 the Nuclear-Free Future Award (NFFA) is an award given to anti-nuclear activists, organizations and communities. The award has honored and helped facilitate the ongoing work of individuals and initiatives struggling to undo this juncture of time for the sake of the coming generations. The central message is: leave the uranium in the earth !^[1] The award is intended to promote the opposition to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

The NFFA is a project of the Franz Moll Foundation for the Coming Generations and gives out awards in three categories: Resistance ($10,000 prize), Education ($10,000 prize) and Solutions ($10,000 prize). Additional optional categories are Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition (contemporary work of art). The award ceremonies take place all around the world.

The NFFA is financed by donations, charity events, and benefit auctions.

Laureates

The Nuclear-Free Future Award Laureates:^[2]

2012: Heiden, Germany Katsumi Furitsu Susan Boos Gabriela Tsukamoto Yves Marignac Sebastian Pfugbeil 2011: Berlin, Germany Nadezhda Kutepova & Natalia Manzurova, Russia Barbara Dickmann & Angelica Fell, Germany Hans Grassmann, Germany Heinz Stockinger, Austria Helen Caldicott, Australia 2010: New York, USA African Uranium Alliance, Africa Bruno Barrillot, France Oleg Bodrov, Russia Martin Sheen, USA Henry Red Cloud, Lakota Nation 2008: Munich, Germany Jillian Marsh for opposition to uranium mining, Australia[3] Manuel Pino for opposition to uranium mining, USA[4] 2007: Salzburg, Austria Opposition: Charmaine White Face and the Defenders of the Black Hills, USA Education: Prof. Siegwart Horst Günther, Germany Solutions: Mayors for Peace Lifetime Achievement: Freda Meissner-Blau, Austria, and Prof. Armin Weiss, Germany 2006: Window Rock, USA Opposition: Sun Xiaodi, China (for his courage in reporting dangers associated with Chinese uranium production)[5] Education: Dr. Gordon Edwards, Canada (for his ongoing commitment to educate the Canadian public about the dangers of uranium mining)[5] Solutions: Wolfgang Scheffler and Heike Hoedt, Germany (for demonstrating solar cookers as an energy alternative for communities in southern countries)[5] Lifetime Achievement: Ed Grothus, USA (for devoting his life as a former weapons designer to be a loud voice of peace within the pro-nuclear community of Los Alamos, NM)[5] 2005: Oslo, Norway Opposition: Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, Vanuatu, South-Pacific Solutions: Preben Maegaard, Denmark Lifetime Achievement: Mathilde Halla, Austria Special Recognition: tribe council of the Navajo, represented by President Joe Shirley Jr., USA

2004: Jaipur, India Opposition: JOAR, indigenous Indian farmers (which has sought to defend the health of the tribal peoples who live near the state-operated Jaduguda uranium mine in Bihar)[6] Education: Asaf Durakovic, American nuclear medic (who founded the Uranium Medical Research Center, an independent non-profit institute which studies the effects of uranium contamination)[6] Solutions: Jonathan Schell, American journalist, author and peace activist[7] Lifetime Achievement: Hildegard Breiner, Austria (the "grand dame" of the Austrian grassroots environmental movement, who protested against the Zwentendorf nuclear facility)[6] Special Recognition: the IndianCity Montessori School in Lucknow, India (the world's largest private school, which has a mission to create a nuclear-free future)[6] 2003: Munich, Germany Speech: Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist Opposition: Dominican Sisters Carol Gilbert, Jackie Hudson and Ardeth Platte, who were imprisoned for breaking into the N-8 Minuteman missile site in October 2002 Education: Souad Naij Al-Azzawi, Iraqi geologist Solutions: Corbin Harney, spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone-Indian Lifetime Achievement: Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake, German physicist 2002: St. Petersburg, Russia[8] Opposition: Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear scientist Education: Ole Kopreitan Solutions: Helen Clark, prime minister of New Zealand Lifetime Achievement: Alexei Yablokov, Francis Macy Special Recognition: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 2001: Carnsore Point, Ireland Opposition: Kevin Buzzacott, Australia Education: Kenji Higuchi, Japan Solutions: Hans-Josef Fell, German politician Life's Work: Solange Fernex, French politician Special Recognition: David Lowry 2000: Berlin, Germany Opposition: Eugene Bourgeois, Normand de la Chevrotiere and Robert McKenzie Education: Yuri I. Kuidin (posthum) Solutions: The Barefoot College of Tilonia Lifetime Achievement: Klaus Traube, Germany 1999: Los Alamos, USA Opposition: Grace Thorpe and Dorothy Purley Education: Lydia Popova Solutions: Ursula Sladek and Michael Sladek, German physicians Lifetime Achievement: Stewart Udall 1998 Salzburg, Austria Opposition: Yvonne Margarula, Australia Education: Raúl Montenegro, Argentine biologist Solutions: Dr. Hari Sharan, Switzerland, India Lifetime Achievement: Maisie Shiell, Canada

See also

• List of Nuclear-Free Future Award recipients
• List of nuclear whistleblowers
• NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War
• Non-nuclear future
• Nuclear Free World Policy
• World Uranium Hearing
• Anti-nuclear movement
• Nuclear disarmament

References

1. "Statement of Mission".
2. "NFFA Recipients and Locations".
3. Jillian Marsh
4. Manuel Pino
5. Recipients of the 2006 Nuclear-Free Future Awards
6. The 2004 Nuclear-Free Future Award Recipients
7. Jonathan Schell
8. The 2002 Nuclear Free Future Awards

External links

• The Nuclear Free Future Award