Nuclear-Free Future Award
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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
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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.
Uranium mining
Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. The worldwide production of uranium in 2009 amounted to 50,572 tonnes, of which 27% was mined in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia are the top three producers and together account for 63% of world uranium...
, nuclear weapons and nuclear power
Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity, with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity...
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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.
Laureates
- 2008
- Jillian MarshJillian MarshJillian Marsh was raised in the coal-mining town of Leigh Creek, in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges, and she has had a long interest in mining issues and indigenous communities. In 1998 Marsh received the prestigious Jill Hudson Environmental Award for her work in educating people living near the...
for opposition to uranium mining, Australia - Manuel PinoManuel PinoManuel Pino is a professor at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona, who comes from a village of the Tewa people west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Opposition to uranium mining has played a central role in Pino's life. The theme for his sociology dissertation was The Destructive Impact of Uranium...
for opposition to uranium mining, USA
- Jillian Marsh
- 2007
- Opposition: Charmaine White FaceCharmaine White FaceCharmaine White Face, Zumila Wobaga, is an Oglala Tetuwan from the Oceti Sakowin in North America....
and the Defenders of the Black Hills, USA - Education: Prof. Siegwart Horst GüntherSiegwart Horst GüntherProfessor Siegwart Horst Günther once worked with Albert Schweitzer in Africa. He is a prominent proponent of the disputed claim that the use of depleted uranium in munitions causes cancers, birth defects and other pathologies. In 2007 the Nuclear-Free Future Award honored for the third time Prof...
, Germany - Solutions: Mayors for PeaceMayors for PeaceMayors for Peace is an international organization of cities, dedicated for the promotion of peace that was established in 1982 at the initiative of then mayor of Hiroshima Takeshi Araki....
- Lifetime Achievement: Freda Meissner-BlauFreda Meissner-BlauFreda Meissner-Blau is an Austrian politician, activist, and prominent figurehead in the Austrian environmental movement. She was a founder and the federal spokesperson of the Austrian Green Party.-Early life:...
, Austria, and Prof. Armin Weiss, Germany
- Opposition: Charmaine White Face
- 2006
- Opposition: Sun XiaodiSun XiaodiSun Xiaodi has spent more than a decade petitioning the central Chinese authorities over radioactive contamination from the No. 792 Uranium Mine in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province. In 2006, he received the prestigious Nuclear-Free Future Award.-External links:*...
, China (for his courage in reporting dangers associated with Chinese uranium production) - Education: Dr. Gordon EdwardsGordon EdwardsGordon Edwards was born in Canada in 1940, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 with a gold medal in Mathematics and Physics and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. In 1972, he obtained a Ph.D...
, Canada (for his ongoing commitment to educate the Canadian public about the dangers of uranium miningUranium miningUranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. The worldwide production of uranium in 2009 amounted to 50,572 tonnes, of which 27% was mined in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia are the top three producers and together account for 63% of world uranium...
) - Solutions: Wolfgang SchefflerWolfgang SchefflerBorn 1956 in Innsbruck, Austria, and recipient of a Special Recognition Award at the 2006 Nuclear-Free Future Award, Wolfgang Scheffler is the inventor/promoter of Scheffler Reflectors, large, flexible parabolic reflecting dishes that concentrate sunlight for solar cooking in community kitchens,...
and Heike Hoedt, Germany (for demonstrating solar cookers as an energy alternative for communities in southern countries) - Lifetime Achievement: Ed GrothusEd GrothusEdward B. Grothus was a machinist/technician and employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the 1950s and 1960s...
, 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)
- Opposition: Sun Xiaodi
- 2005
- Opposition: Motarilavoa Hilda LiniMotarilavoa Hilda LiniMotarilavoa Hilda Lini is a chief of the Turaga nation of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu in the South Pacific, who has been associated with the nuclear-free Pacific movement, women’s rights, indigenous rights, and environmental issues. Following Vanuatu's 1980 independence, she became the first woman...
, Vanuatu, South-Pacific - Solutions: Preben MaegaardPreben MaegaardPreben Maegaard is a Danish renewable energy pioneer, author and expert who is Executive Director of the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy. Since the 1973 oil crisis he has worked locally, nationally and internationally for the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy...
, Denmark - Lifetime Achievement: Mathilde HallaMathilde HallaMathilde Halla first became involved in the anti-nuclear movement in Austria in 1973 when she joined a small activist organization called Citizens Against Atomic Danger, while working as a schoolteacher. For over thirty years, she has coordinated anti-nuclear demonstrations, written numerous...
, Austria - Special Recognition: tribe council of the NavajoNavajo peopleThe Navajo of the Southwestern United States are the largest single federally recognized tribe of the United States of America. The Navajo Nation has 300,048 enrolled tribal members. The Navajo Nation constitutes an independent governmental body which manages the Navajo Indian reservation in the...
, represented by President Joe Shirley Jr., USA
- Opposition: Motarilavoa Hilda Lini
- 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)
- Education: Asaf DurakovicAsaf DurakovicAsaf Duraković is a Croatian physician and expert in nuclear medicine and depleted uranium. He is also known for his poetry and verse....
, American nuclear medic (who founded the Uranium Medical Research Center, an independent non-profit institute which studies the effects of uranium contamination) - Solutions: Jonathan SchellJonathan SchellJonathan Edward Schell is an author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily deals with nuclear weapons.-Career:His work has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, and TomDispatch...
, American publicist (who trusts the democratic power of informed consensus to set the world upon the path of universal nuclear disarmament) - Lifetime Achievement: Hildegard BreinerHildegard BreinerHildegard Breiner is from Vorarlberg, Austria, where she and her late husband led the anti-nuclear campaign against Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant in the 1970s. In 1978, an unprecedented 85 percent of the voters in Vorarlberg cast their votes against Zwentendorf, tipping the scales of the...
, Austria (the "grand dame" of the Austrian grassroots environmental movement, who protested against the ZwentendorfZwentendorfZwentendorf an der Donau is a small market municipality in Lower Austria, Austria, with 3,280 inhabitants. It is located at , in the Tullnerfeld on the southern bank of the Danube. The place attained celebrity as the site of the only Austrian nuclear power station, which was established here, but...
nuclear facility) - Special Recognition: the IndianCity Montessori School in LucknowLucknowLucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....
, India (the world's largest private school, which has a mission to create a nuclear-free future)
- 2003
- Speech: Hans-Peter DürrHans-Peter DürrHans-Peter Dürr is a German physicist. In addition to nuclear and quantum physics, elementary particles and gravitation, epistemology, and philosophy, he has advocated responsible scientific and energy policies.-Biography:...
, 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 HarneyCorbin HarneyCorbin Harney was an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe people. Harney reportedly inspired the creation in 1994 of the Shundahai Network, which works for environmental justice and the abolition of nuclear weapons...
, spiritual leader of the Western ShoshoneWestern ShoshoneWestern Shoshone comprises several Shoshone tribes that are indigenous to the Great Basin and have lands identified in the Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863. They resided in Idaho, Nevada, California, and Utah. The tribes are very closely related culturally to the Paiute, Goshute, Bannock, Ute, and...
-Indian - Lifetime Achievement: Inge Schmitz-FeuerhakeInge Schmitz-FeuerhakeBorn in Osnabrück, Germany on September 28, 1935, Inge Schmitz-Feuerhakes research has assessed the biological effects of ionizing radiation at low dosage levels. From 1973 and until her retirement in 2000 she was a professor in experimental physics at the University of Bremen...
, German physicist
- Speech: Hans-Peter Dürr
- 2002
- Opposition: Mordechai VanunuMordechai VanunuMordechai Vanunu ; is a former Israeli nuclear technician who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured to Italy by a Mossad agent, where he was drugged and kidnapped by...
, Israeli nuclear scientist - Education: Ole KopreitanOle KopreitanOle Andreas Kopreitan was a Norwegian political activist, best known as an anti-nuclear activist. For 30 years he led the anti-nuclear organization "No to Nuclear Weapons"....
- Solutions: Helen ClarkHelen ClarkHelen Elizabeth Clark, ONZ is a New Zealand political figure who was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand for three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008...
, prime minister of New Zealand - Lifetime Achievement: Alexei Yablokov, Francis Macy
- Special Recognition: The Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsBulletin of the Atomic ScientistsThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nontechnical online magazine that covers global security and public policy issues, especially related to the dangers posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction...
- Opposition: Mordechai Vanunu
- 2001
- Opposition: Kevin BuzzacottKevin BuzzacottKevin Buzzacott , often referred to as Uncle Kev as an Aboriginal elder, is an Indigenous Australian from the Arabunna nation in northern South Australia...
, Australia - Education: Kenji HiguchiKenji Higuchihas been a professor of photography at several institutions in Tokyo, and an instructor at the . He is the eldest son of a farmer and at the age of 24 took up photography after viewing Robert Capa's famous anti-war photos. He published some of the first images of nuclear workers toiling inside a...
, Japan - Solutions: Hans-Josef FellHans-Josef FellHans-Josef Fell is a member of the Green Party in the German Parliament. Fell framed the German Renewable Energy legislation, together with Hermann Scheer...
, German politician - Life's Work: Solange FernexSolange FernexSolange Fernex was a French pacifist activist and politician, born on 15 April 1934 at Strasbourg, France, and died from cancer on 11 September 2006, at Biederthal, France.She led Europe-Ecologie list for the first European elections in 1979...
, French politician - Special Recognition: David LowryDavid LowryDavid Lowry is a research consultant with specialist knowledge of UK and EU nuclear and environment policy.-Biography:Lowry is a contributing author to a 2007 book on British energy choices entitled Nuclear or Not? In 2001, Lowry was presented with a special award for education at the Nuclear-Free...
- Opposition: Kevin Buzzacott
- 2000
- Opposition: Eugene BourgeoisEugène BourgeoisClaude Eugène Hippolyte Bourgeois was a French dramatist and writer. He is remembered today for collaborating with Émile Souvestre on the play Le Pasteur ou l'Évangile et le foyer, which was adapted by Francesco Maria Piave into the libretto for Giuseppe Verdi's Stiffelio...
, Normand de la Chevrotiere and Robert McKenzieRobert McKenzieRobert Trelford McKenzie was a Canadian professor of Politics and Sociology, and a psephologist -Early life:... - Education: Yuri I. Kuidin (posthum)
- Solutions: The Barefoot College of Tilonia
- Lifetime Achievement: Klaus TraubeKlaus TraubeKlaus Traube is a German engineer and former manager in the German nuclear power industry and presently one of its leading opponents...
, Germany
- Opposition: Eugene Bourgeois
- 1999
- Opposition: Grace Thorpe and Dorothy Purley
- Education: Lydia Popova
- Solutions: Ursula SladekUrsula SladekUrsula Sladek owns a small local power company, Schönau Power Supply, that provides electricity from renewable energy sources to the German electrcity grid...
and Michael SladekMichael SladekMichael Sladek is a German doctor and bearer of the Bundesverdienstkreuz.He became famous by realising a grid-independent system for producing electricity, by distributed little power plants....
, German physicians - Lifetime Achievement: Stewart UdallStewart UdallStewart Lee Udall was an American politician. After serving three terms as a congressman from Arizona, he served as Secretary of the Interior from 1961 to 1969, under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B...
- 1998
- Opposition: Yvonne MargarulaYvonne MargarulaYvonne Margarula won the 1998 Friends of the Earth International Environment Award and the 1998 Nuclear-Free Future Award. She also won the 1999 U.S...
, Australia - Education: Raúl MontenegroRaúl MontenegroRaúl Montenegro is an Argentine biologist, environmentalist and activist. He has worked as a professor at the University of Córdoba , and at several other educational institutions. In 1982, he founded FUNAM, a grassroots environmental organization, and became its president in 1995...
, Argentine biologist - Solutions: Hari Sharan, India
- Lifetime Achievement: Maisie ShiellMaisie ShiellMaisie Shiell became involved in anti-nuclear issues in 1976 when public concern developed about a new uranium mine in Saskatchewan. At sixty-one years of age, Shiell began learning how to translate highly technical issues about radioactivity into something she could understand and pass along to...
, Canada
- Opposition: Yvonne Margarula
See also
- List of Nuclear-Free Future Award recipients
- Non-nuclear future
- Nuclear Free World PolicyNuclear Free World PolicyThe Nuclear Free World Policy is a commitment by the governments of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Slovenia, South Africa, and Sweden to shape foreign policy around the goal of "the elimination of nuclear weapons and assurance that they will never be produced again." Of particular...