.:: Dounreay Donations To MacMillan Cancer Support, Diabetes UK SSPCA Balmore ::.

Date: 14 September 2009
Location: Dounreay, Caithness
The decommissioning team responsible for the clean up of the plutonium criticality laboratory have donated their winnings to local charities. They won the team award in the 2008 round of Dounreay Director’s safety awards, and decided to pool the £1,000 prize money with the £1,000 to be donated to charity. Senior project manager Charlie Fowler explained that the team wanted to use the money to benefit others. Decommissioning D8550 was not the achievement of just the clean up team, it was the result of the efforts of the whole site. The team felt it would not be proper to accept the team part of the award without somehow extending it to the whole of DSRL and our contractors. The money was split equally between four local charities – the Caithness branch of MacMillan Cancer Support, Wick Lifeboat, the Caithness branch of Diabetes UK and the SSPCA Balmore animal rescue centre