Since 1998 the Nuclear-Free Future Award (NFFA) has annually honoured the architects of a nuclear-free planet. The NFFA makes awards to individuals, organizations and communities for their outstanding commitment towards creating a world free of the threat of uranium mining, nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

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 Marsh for opposition to uranium mining, Australia
  • Manuel Pino for opposition to uranium mining, USA

• 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)
  • Education: Dr. Gordon Edwards, Canada (for his ongoing commitment to educate the Canadian public about the dangers of uranium mining)
  • Solutions: Wolfgang Scheffler and Heike Hoedt, Germany (for demonstrating solar cookers as an energy alternative for communities in southern countries)
  • 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)

• 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)
  • 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)
  • Solutions: Jonathan Schell, American publicist (who trusts the democratic power of informed consensus to set the world upon the path of universal nuclear disarmament)
  • Lifetime Achievement: Hildegard Breiner, Austria (the "grand dame" of the Austrian grassroots environmental movement, who protested against the Zwentendorf nuclear facility)
  • 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)

• 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
  • 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 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

See also

• List of Nuclear-Free Future Award recipients
• Non-nuclear future
• Nuclear Free World Policy
• The Nuclear Illusion

References

1. Jillian Marsh
2. Manuel Pino
3. Recipients of the 2006 Nuclear-Free Future Awards
4. The 2004 Nuclear-Free Future Award Recipients
5. The 2002 Nuclear Free Future Awards

External links

• The Nuclear Free Future Award