The NFFA is a project of the Franz Moll Foundation for the Coming Generations and gives out awards in three categories: Resistance ($10,000 prize), Education ($10,000 prize) and Solutions ($10,000 prize). Additional optional categories are Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition (contemporary work of art). The award ceremonies take place all around the world.
The NFFA is financed by donations, charity events, and benefit auctions.
Lifetime achievement: Sebastian Pflugbeil, Germany
2004: Jaipur, India
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 journalist, author and peace activist[6]
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]