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Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2001

Since the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, biologist Solange Fernex has fought, struck, starved – and slept little – for the end of all nuclear weapons testing. She travelled the world with small luggage and called for disarmament and the renunciation of nuclear energy through microphones and megaphones: The 67-year-old pacifist Solange Fernex is considered the mother of the French anti-nuclear movement. She was awarded the NFFA for her life’s work.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2002

Since the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the magazine published in Chicago reliably reports on questions of the nuclear threat. The Bulletin was founded by former scientists of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. secret program during World War II that was responsible for developing the atomic bomb. Its symbol is the apocalyptic clock showing the imminent end of the world. A special recognition by the NFFA.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2002

Two men from very different worlds, the Russian Alexei Yablokov and the American Francis Macy. Yablokov, founder and president of the Center for Russian Environmental Policy, and Macy, one of the directors of the NGO Tri-Valley CARE, have been working closely together since 1991 and founded the Nuclear Watchdog Network, a coalition of grassroots organizations that monitor nuclear facilities in Russia and Ukraine. They received the honorary award for their life’s work.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2003

Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake’s life’s work is determined by her scientific achievements in the research of long-term effects in the low-radiation range and their measurability. Exemplary for her commitment is the search of more than ten years for the causes of the accumulation of leukaemia in children in the vicinity of the Geesthacht nuclear facilities. Schleswig-Holstein was therefore given a leukaemia commission. She received the NFFA for her life’s work.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2004

Peace education plays a key role in the curriculum of the Montesori School Lakhnau. The school’s efforts for total and worldwide disengagement from nuclear technology – both civilian and military – have brought it much attention. And the list of personalities and institutions that have responded to its curriculum is now impressively long. The NFFF honors this with a special recognition.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2004

Hildegard Breiner, today the Grande Dame of the environmental and anti-nuclear movement in Vorarlberg/Austria, earned her spurs as an activist over a quarter of a century ago – in the fight against Zwentendorf. To this day no nuclear power is produced in Austria because in 1978 the opponents of nuclear power won a referendum very narrowly over the government and the nuclear lobby. The Zwentendorf nuclear power plant was not allowed to be built any further. He received the honorary prize for his life’s work.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2005

Already in 1973 Mathilde Halla joined the citizens’ initiative against nuclear threat. Today the first monument to outdated energy production stands in Zwentendorf. The narrow victory of the opponents of nuclear power in the Austrian referendum of 1978 has a lot to do with Mathilde Halla’s commitment. And the opposition to nuclear power in the Czech Republic and Slovakia bears her signature not least. She received the NFFA for her life’s work.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2006

Phil Harrison reported in 1992 at the World Uranium Hearing in Salzburg on the cancer death of his father at the age of 43, who wore neither mouthguards nor gloves in the unventilated uranium mines. Lung cancer, silicosis, leukemia and skin cancer became the miners’ diseases. He wants recognition and reparation for the human sacrifices his people have made for the nuclear industry. He was honoured with a special recognition.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2006

In 1949, at the age of 26, he signed up in the secret laboratory town of Los Alamos and believed in deterrence in the name of peace for twenty years. In 1969, cleansed by the Vietnam War, he resigned. Since then he has been a warner against the nuclear holocaust. “I am the conscience of Los Alamos,” he says, “and sometimes I think I am the only one who is not insane.” He received the honorary award for his life’s work.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2007

Distrust against the nuclear industry has been growing in Freda Meissner-Blau since the 1950’s and culminated in the resistance against the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant in 1978, although for her the fight against the nuclear industry is part of a fundamental change. At the World Uranium Hearing in 1992, Freda Meissner-Blau was among those who held people from all over the world together and filled them with courage. She received the NFFA for her life’s work.