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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.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2007

The anti-nuclear movement would have remained helpless if there had not been experts like Prof. Dr. Dr. Armin Weiß. In the highly charged debates about the reprocessing plant Wackersdorf, the chemist pointed out that during normal operation, half a percent of the radioactivity is released into the environment via exhaust stacks during the reprocessing of fuel elements. His expertise helped to prevent Wackersdorf. He received the NFFA for his life’s work.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2010

August 1999: Martin Sheen, who became famous for his leading role in “Apocalypse Now”, crosses the yellow cordon that the nuclear laboratory of Los Alamos, New Mexico, pulled against demonstrators. Together with about 400 people, he wants to remind people that the atomic bombs that wiped out two Japanese cities at the end of World War II were produced here. He received the NFFA for his life’s work.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2010

Henry Red Cloud wants to help all Lakota, Dakota and Nakota to a self-sufficient life. This includes food and energy. By 2010, his small company had equipped over 300 roofs with solar cells. Already in 2008 he founded the “Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center” with the aim of training specialists who then import the solar technology know-how into their tribal communities.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2011

After the shutdown of Zwentendorf, Heinz Stockinger founded the “Non-party Salzburg Platform against the Wackersdorf Reprocessing Plant”, which – after the shutdown of the WAA – became the “Platform against Nuclear Dangers”. For 20 years, the driving force behind this platform has been fighting against the EURATOM Treaty. He called for a Siemens boycott and traveled around the country to make the coalition of nuclear-free countries known. He received the NFFA for his life’s work.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2012

The journalist Susan Boos spent months researching the consequences of Chernobyl in 1995. She spoke with clean-up workers, representatives of the authorities, scientists, doctors and people contaminated by the Chernobyl fallout. This can be read in her book “Beherrschtes Entsetzen – das Leben in der Ukraine zehn Jahre nach Tschernobyl” (Controlled horror – life in Ukraine ten years after Chernobyl). In Switzerland, she dealt with her own nuclear policy and wrote, among other things, “Radiant Switzerland” – for which she received the NFFA Honorary Award.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2012

The physicist Sebastian Pflugbeil was a co-founder of the New Forum in the German Democratic Republic in 1989. He was minister without portfolio in the last Modrow government led by the SED and responsible for the fact that the Greifswald and Rheinsberg nuclear power plants were shut down and no longer built. He later researched the causes of increased leukaemia rates around the Krümmel nuclear power plant and the victims of Chernobyl and Fukushima. He received the NFFA for his life’s work.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2014

After the Chernobyl catastrophe, the doctor and radiation biologist Edmund Lengfelder immediately went to the Chernobyl site to see the consequences for himself. In 1987, he published a detailed map of the Chernobyl contamination in southern Bavaria; in 1991, he founded a medical centre in Gomel, where to date well over 100,000 children and adults suffering from thyroid disease have been treated. He received the NFFA for his life’s work.

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2014

The resistance against the reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf was supported by the highest politician in the district: Hans Schuierer. The incorruptible district administrator refused the building permit, demonstrated together with his wife Lilo and supported the demonstrators in building their village of huts. This was tantamount to treason. In 1989 the Bavarian government decided not to build the reprocessing plant . He received the NFFA for his life’s work.