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Category Solution – 2017

The physicist Dr. Hiromichi Umebayashi is working tirelessly on the vision: No nuclear missiles on the soil of Japan, North and South Korea; Russia, China and the USA should guarantee not to use nuclear weapons against these three states. Behind the stage he is constantly active. With diplomats and politicians and of course with the Mayors for Peace.

Category Education – 1998

If you want to get a picture of Dr. Raúl A. Montenegro, you’d best ask his opponents, the South American nuclear lobby: Hardly anyone has thwarted their plans more lastingly than the biologist. In Argentina his name is synonymous with “courage in the face of the giants”. Without him, the Los Gigantes uranium mines would hardly have had to close and Guatemala would have built a nuclear power plant.

Category Education – 1999

Lydia Popova worked for 17 years as a scientific expert in the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy and Industry (MINATOM), when she left in 1990 to become coordinator of SEU (Alternative Energy Program), an umbrella organization for 250 environmental and anti-nuclear groups, and repeatedly pointed out the dangers of a plutonized world community (e.g. “Plutonium in Russia”).

Category Education – 2001

Thanks to the documentary work of photographer Kenji Higushi, more and more attention is being paid to the victims of civil nuclear fission. His first of eight volumes of photographs to date (Exposed Workers Disappear in the Dark) was conceived as educational material and quickly became a secret long seller. Even more successful: This is a nuclear plant (1991).

Category Education – 2002

The fact that Norway’s parliament declared in 1975 that it would touch its future non-nuclear energy mix is due to the fierce grassroots resistance in the country and in particular to Ole Kopreitan. After this stage victory, he committed himself to the worldwide fight against military and commercial use of nuclear power, since 1980 as Secretary General of the organisation “Nei til Atomvåpen”.

Category Education – 2003

The geologist Dr. Souad Naij Al-Azzawi completed her doctorate on the radioactive contamination of the groundwater in Colorado by nuclear power plants and returned to Iraq with this knowledge. In 1995/96, as head of the Department of Environmental Engineering at the University of Baghdad, she investigated the contamination of soil, water, air and agricultural products by ammunition hardened with depleted uranium.

Category Education – 2004

At the end of the 1990s, the radiologist and expert on radiation damage founded the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMCR) in Canada after he discovered depleted uranium and even plutonium in US soldiers suffering from the then mysterious “Gulf War Syndrome” – and was advised to conduct research in other directions. Since 2002, the UMCR has maintained two research teams in Afghanistan, among others.

Category Education – 2006

For decades, the mathematician Gordon Edwards has been one of Canada’s leading figures in the anti-nuclear scene. He proved that the Canadian government’s limits for radon gas were six times excessive and played a key role in a moratorium on a new reactor in Quebec. Effortlessly and with analytical accuracy he dismantles the myth of clean nuclear energy.

Category Education – 2007

In 1991, Professor Siegwart Horst Günther came across an unusually large number of deformed babies in Iraq and clinical pictures such as he had never seen before in this region: Günther suspected that tanks shot down with uranium ammunition were the main cause. He had a projectile picked up in the desert sand spectrographically examined in Berlin in 1992, which confirmed his suspicion.

Category Education – 2010

The physicist Oleg Bodrov has headed Russia’s leading environmental organization Green World since 1999. He recognized early on that his fight against extending the operating life of old nuclear plants in Russia needed a “positive basis”. This is why his commitment is also directed towards sustainable energy production. Wherever the government imposes silence, he relies on dialogue.