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.1
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.1
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)4
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)5
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)5
Solutions: Jonathan Schell, American publicist (who trusts the democratic power of informed consensus to set the world upon the path of universal nuclear disarmament)5
Lifetime Achievement: Hildegard Breiner, Austria (the "grand dame" of the Austrian grassroots environmental movement, who protested against the Zwentendorf nuclear facility)5
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)5
