Nuclear-Free Future Award
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The Nuclear-Free Future Award is awarded to people committed against nuclear arms and energy. The award was donated after the World Uranium Hearing 1992 in Salzburg, Austria, and is awarded since 1998 in 3 categories: opposition, education and solution. Additionally, there is special award honoring the life's work. The award is endowed 30.000 Euros.
[edit] Laureates
- 2006
- Opposition: Sun Xiaodi, China
- Education: Dr. Gordon Edwards, Canada
- Solution: Wolfgang Scheffler and Heike Hoedt, Germany
- Life's Work: Ed Grothus, USA
- 2005
- Opposition: Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, Vanuatu, South-Pacific
- Solution: Preben Maegaard, Denmark
- Life's Work: Mathilde Halla, Austria
- Special Recognition: tribe council of the Navajo, represented by President Joe Shirley Jr., USA
- 2004
- Opposition: JOAR, indigenous Indiean farmers
- Education: Asaf Durakovic, American nuclear medic
- Solution: Jonathan Schell, American publicist
- Life's Work: Hildegard Breiner, Austria
- Special Recognition: the IndianCity Montessori School in Lucknow, India
- 2003 Speech: Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist
- Opposition: Carol Gilbert, Jackie Hudson and Ardeth Platte, Dominican Republic
- Education: Souad Naij Al-Azzawi, Iraqi geologist
- Solution: Corbin Harney, spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone-Indian
- Life's Work: Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake, German physicist
- 2002
- Opposition: Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear scientist
- Education: Ole Kopreitan
- Solution: Helen Clark, prime minister of New Zealand
- Life's Work: Alexei Yablokov, Francis Macy
- Special Recognition: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- 2001
- Opposition: Kevin Buzzacott, Australia
- Education: Kenji Higuchi, Japan
- Solution: Hans-Josef Fell, German politician
- Life's Work: Solange Fernex, French politician
- Special Recognition: David Lowry
- 2000
- Opposition: Eugene Bourgeois, Normand de la Chevrotiere and Robert McKenzie
- Education: Yuri I. Kuidin (posthum)
- Solution: The Barefoot College of Tilonia
- Life's Work: Klaus Traube, Germany
- 1999
- Opposition: Grace Thorpe and Dorothy Purley
- Education: Lydia Popova
- Solution: Ursula and Michael Sladek, German physicians
- Life's Work: Stewart Udall
- 1998
- Opposition: Yvonne Margarula, Australia
- Education: Raúl Montenegro, Argentinean biologist
- Solution: Hari Sharan, India
- Life's Work: Maisie Shiell, Canada
