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 opposition to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and nuclear power. [1]

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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]

2016: Johannesburg, South Africa [3]

  • Resistance: Arif Ali Cangi, Turkey
  • Education: Bruno Chareyron, France
  • Solutions: Samson Tsegaye, Ethiopia
  • Special Recognition: Susi Snyder, Netherlands/International and Alfred Manyanyata Sepepe, South Africa

2012: Heiden, Germany [4]

  • Resistance: Gabriela Tsukamoto, Portugal
  • Education: Katsumi Furitsu, Japan
  • Solutions: Yves Marignac, France
  • Special recognition: Susan Boos, Switzerland
  • Lifetime achievement: Sebastian Pflugbeil, Germany

2006: Window Rock, USA [5]

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]

2002: St. Petersburg, Russia [8]

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References

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  2. "NFFA Recipients and Locations".
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