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30 years of the World Uranium Hearing

The consequences of uranium mining became visible in all their drama for the first time during the so-called "World Uranium Hearing" in Salzburg in 1992. On 13 September 2022, a commemorative event took place in Salzburg. The organisers Claus Biegert and the Leopold Kohr® Academy Salzburg looked back on what had been achieved and at the same time wanted to show what still needs to be done.

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Outlook and review of the Foundation

We could not have imagined the shelling of nuclear power plants and the open threat to use nuclear weapons a few weeks ago. The war in Ukraine is a terrible reminder that we must continue to work tirelessly to end the nuclear age. Read what the Nuclear Free Future Foundation is doing or has done this year or last year.

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World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021

The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021, published on September 28, shows very clearly: nuclear power is becoming less and less important. In 2020, nuclear power generation plunged by un an unprecedented margin (>100 TWh), except for the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima events (2011–12), while operational nuclear capacity has reached a new peak in mid-2021. More capacity, less output.

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No nuclear-fuel-cooperation Framatome/Rosatom in Lingen

In February 2021 the French nuclear company Framatome announced plans to create a Joint Venture with the Russian nuclear company Rosatom in Lingen (Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany) in order to produce nuclear fuel rods. In Lingen the only nuclear fuel production facility in Germany is in operation. It delivers nuclear fuel to high risk reactors in Belgium, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Spain, Sweden and Finnland. Framatome is a subsidiary of the nearly entirely state-owned French nuclear company EdF. Rosatom is state-owned in Russia – in Lingen its subsidiary TVEL is tasked to get active.

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10 years of Fukushima

On 11 March 2011, a tsunami caused a meltdown in units 1, 2 and 3 of the Fukushima nuclear power plant. According to the Japanese supervisory authority, mainly iodine-131 and caesium-137 were released, with the radioactive load being about one tenth of the amount released in Chernobyl. Millions were able to follow the path the radioactive cloud took. Fukushima - and Chernobyl as early as 1986 - have shown the world the catastrophic potential of nuclear power.

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End nuclear cooperation between Germany and Russia

Anti-nuclear initiatives from North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony as well as the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives for Environmental Protection (BBU) and the doctors' organisation IPPNW demand an immediate end to nuclear cooperation between Germany and Russia, especially in the field of uranium enrichment and fuel element production. The reason for the urgent appeal is the violent repression against numerous demonstrations in Russia in the wake of the unlawful arrest of opposition politician Alexei Nawalny.

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NFFA Award Winner Deb Haaland to Become US Secretary of the Interior

In early September, the Nuclear Free Future Foundation awarded US Congresswoman Deb Haaland with the Nuclear Free Future Award. The Democrat campaigns for social justice, climate protection or against uranium mining in the Bears Ears Nature Park, a National Monument of the United States. Now she has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden as Secretary of the Interior, as reported by the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and meanwhile several other media.

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A New Hope? The U.S. Election and Prospects for Arms Control

This blogpost briefly reviews the last four years of U.S. policy on international arms control. Despite the particularly aggressive approach that has been pursued by the Trump administration, we see a high degree of continuity in the general neglect of arms control and collective security. This raises questions about how to think of new ways to repair and build up new arms control structures.

By Anna-Katharina Ferl and Sascha Hach

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The Laureates of the Nuclear-Free Future Award 2020

An international jury of activists and scientists selected the winners of the Nuclear Free Future Award 2020 in the three categories resistance, education and solution – each prize is endowed with 5000 US dollars:

Category Resistance: Fedor Maryasov and Andrey Talevlin, Russia
Category Education: Felice and Jack Cohen-Joppa, USA
Category Solution: Ray Acheson, Canada/Ireland
Special Recognition: Deb Haaland, USA

Due to Corona, the Nuclear Free Future Award will be presented this year in an online dossier. At www.nuclear-free.com you will find detailed information on the prizewinners as well as photos and video clips. Webinars with the prize winners will also be offered in the next two months. Cooperation partners are Greenpeace Umweltstiftung, IPPNW Germany and Beyond Nuclear.

VIDEO: More information about the Nuclear Free Future Award in this film clip

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Uranium Atlas Published on the 75th Anniversary of Trinity

On Thursday, July 16, 2020, the Nuclear Free Future Foundation together with the Münchner Zukunftssalon, Beyond Nuclear, IPPNW and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation presented the English edition of the Uranium Atlas in an online event.

All those who were unable to attend live can watch the event on Youtube. Moderator: Claus Biegert (Nuclear Free Future Foundation) and Linda Gunter (Beyond Nuclear, USA). Guests: Makoma Lekalakala (Earthlife Africa, South Africa), Ian Zabarte (Speaker of the Western Shoshone Nation, Nevada, USA), Anna Rondon (Activist of the Navajo Nation, New Mexico, USA) and Sascha Hach (Peace Researcher, NFFF, Germany). Video messages from: Tina Cordova (Trinity Downwinders) and Larry King (Church Rock eyewitness). Directed by: Franza Drechsel, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

Here the link to the Youtube video

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Background Urantlas shows a mine filled with water

Uranium Atlas:

Data & Facts about the Raw Material of the Nuclear Age

Award

Since 1998, the Nuclear-Free Future Award has honored people worldwide who are working for a future free of nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

The award ceremonies, which will take place annually at different locations until 2018, demonstrate the size and diversity of the global anti-nuclear movement. According to the German newspaper taz, this makes the Nuclear-Free Future Award the most important anti-nuclear prize in the world.

Laureate 2020

Kategorie Widerstand

Category RESISTANCE: Anthony Lyamunda, Tanzania

Anthony Lyamunda has been resisting the planned uranium mining and opening of uranium mines in his country for many years. "The Nuclear Free Future Award is intended to draw the attention of the world public to this problem," the jury said in its statement.

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Kategorie Aufklärung

Category EDUCATION: Libbe HaLevy, USA

Libbe HaLevy runs a weekly podcast about all things nuclear, Nuclear Hotseat. It's a real powerhouse, but she's able to bring in high-profile guests from around the world.
"Because the Nuclear Hotseat program is available online, many activists around the world can access information not normally available to them through the weekly podcast," judges the NFFF jury, "this is a very compelling offering."

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Kategorie Lösungen

Category Solutions: Malte Göttsche, Germany

Malte Göttsche advocates for disarmament and the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and is looking for new ways for nuclear-weapon states to build mutual trust to achieve this goal. "This is a service to us all," the NFFF jury said. "We need the mechanisms to understand what nuclear-weapon states are doing, or not doing, if we are to have any chance of achieving the goals of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Malte Göttsche is among those paving the way for that."

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Kategorie Ehrenpreis

Honor Award (Special Recognition): Cécile Lecomte, France

"Without Cécile Lecomte's commitment, the anti-nuclear movement in Germany would be much weaker and the international dimension of uranium reprocessing would be much less known in Germany," judges the NFFF jury. "Her work is all the more remarkable because she has been seriously ill for years and is confined to a wheelchair. Her commitment to a nuclear weapons-free world is exemplary."

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Kategorie Ehrenpreis

Honor Award (Lifetime Achievement): Irmgard Gietl, Germany

"The fact that a woman supports the strugglers against the reprocessing plant with warm socks so that they don't get cold feet" impressed us very much, emphasizes the NFFF jury. In any case, Irmgard also attributes the fact that the Bavarian state government abandoned the construction of the WAA in 1989 to her "resistance socks" – that is true in any case, but very modestly formulated.

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The Nuclear Free Future Foundation

We educate about the dangers of using nuclear technology for civilian and military purposes.

A central focus of our work is the extraction of the raw material uranium, without which nuclear bombs and nuclear power would not be possible. The second focus is directed against the nuclear armament of Europe and the world.

The Nuclear Free Future Foundation

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