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 is intended to promote the opposition to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and nuclear power.[1]
The NFFA is a project of the Franz Moll Foundation and in 2007 gave out awards in four categories: Opposition ($10,000 prize), Education ($10,000 prize), Solutions ($10,000 prize), and Lifetime Achievement (contemporary work of art). The 2007 Awards ceremony, hosted by the state government of Salzburg, Austria, took place at the Archbishop's Palace on 18 October.[1]
Laureates
- 2008
- Jillian Marsh for opposition to uranium mining, Australia[2]
- Manuel Pino for opposition to uranium mining, USA[3]
- 2007
- 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
- Opposition: Sun Xiaodi, China (for his courage in reporting dangers associated with Chinese uranium production)[4]
- Education: Dr. Gordon Edwards, Canada (for his ongoing commitment to educate the Canadian public about the dangers of uranium mining)[4]
- Solutions: Wolfgang Scheffler and Heike Hoedt, Germany (for demonstrating solar cookers as an energy alternative for communities in southern countries)[4]
- 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)[4]
- 2005
- 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
- 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)[5]
- 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)[5]
- Solutions: Jonathan Schell, American publicist (who trusts the democratic power of informed consensus to set the world upon the path of universal nuclear disarmament)[5]
- Lifetime Achievement: Hildegard Breiner, Austria (the "grand dame" of the Austrian grassroots environmental movement, who protested against the Zwentendorf nuclear facility)[5]
- 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)[5]
- 2003
- 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[6]
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Opposition: Grace Thorpe and Dorothy Purley
- Education: Lydia Popova
- Solutions: Ursula Sladek and Michael Sladek, German physicians
- Lifetime Achievement: Stewart Udall
- 1998
- Opposition: Yvonne Margarula, Australia
- Education: Raúl Montenegro, Argentine biologist
- Solutions: Hari Sharan, India
- Lifetime Achievement: Maisie Shiell, Canada