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Claus Biegert honored for his Life's Work
At this year's Uranium Film Festival, Claus Biegert, who founded the Nuclear Free Future Award and has been instrumental in the work of the Nuclear Free Future Foundation for 20 years, and Navajo activist Anna Rondon, who heads the New Mexico Social Justice and Equity Institute in New Mexico/USA, were honoured with the Honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards. The awards were presented to the two during the International Uranium Film Festival at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock.
"Rosatom Is Putin’s Geopolitical Arm"
The French energy corporation Framatome operates the German nuclear fuel facility in Lingen through its subsidiary Advanced Nuclear Fuels. Two years ago, the state-owned French energy company EDF attempted to collaborate with the similarly state-owned Russian nuclear energy group Rosatom in a joint fuel element production venture, but those plans were scuttled following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Framatome launched this joint venture in France, but still intends to produce fuel elements for Soviet-designed nuclear power plants in Lingen, Eastern Germany, with Russian help. Franza Drechsel and Horst Hamm spoke with scientist Vladimir Slivyak and anti-nuclear campaigner Matthias Eickhoff about why French state-owned companies are enriching Russian uranium on German soil and what implications it has for the environment, the energy grid, and European geopolitics.
News about the Nuclear-Free Future Awards
The Nuclear Free Future Awards will be continued in cooperation with Claus Biegert, co-founder of the NFFA, Beyond Nuclear (USA) and IPPNW (DE).
Turkey before the Start of the Nuclear Age
Turkey's first nuclear power plant is due to be connected to the grid soon. We asked Özgür Gürbüz, co-founder of the Turkish environmental protection organization Ekosfer, how the Turkish public perceives the entry into the nuclear age.
Interview: Horst Hamm
France's nuclear Plans - with the Support of the EU Council of Ministers
When reforming the electricity market in Europe, the EU Council of Ministers decided that new and existing nuclear power plants may be subsidized by the state. Anti-nuclear activists in France are protesting against this decision. They are now hoping that the EU Parliament will stop the plans.
Read more … France's nuclear Plans - with the Support of the EU Council of Ministers
Meet the 2022 NFFA winners
Anthony Lyamunda from Tanzania, Libbe HaLevy from the USA, Cécile Lecomte from France and Malte Göttsche and Irmgard Gietl, both from Germany, were awarded the Nuclear Free Future Award last year. You can meet the award winners in a Zoom meeting.
"Uranium mining is a disaster for Niger"
Almoustapha Alhacen on the situation of uranium mining after the military coup in July 2023.
Interview: Franza Drechsel and Horst Hamm
Call for a worldwide peace action against the threat of nuclear war
August 6 marks the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The organization Humanity for Peace calls on anti-nuclear initiatives and peace groups to participate in the worldwide peace action.
Read more … Call for a worldwide peace action against the threat of nuclear war
Uranium Film Festival 2023
Prizes were awarded at the 12th International Uranium Film Festival in Rio on May 28. The three main prizes went to Sweden, the USA and Serbia.
NFFF Award Winners 2022
Anthony Lyamunda from Tanzania, Libbe HaLevy from the USA, Cécile Lecomte from France and Malte Göttsche and Irmgard Gietl, both from Germany, were awarded the Nuclear Free Future Award last year. The award winners present their work in a short film.