decommission
decommission
Definition
de·com·mis·sion (dē′kə mis̸h′ən)
transitive verb
- to revoke the commission of
- to take (a ship, nuclear power plant, etc.) out of service
decommission
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- weaponry: Local Ulster Unionist assembly member Joan Carson said the discovery underlined the need for decommissioning of illegal weaponry.
- reactor: It is now likely the reactor will close in November, marking the start to the decommissioning of all power reactors in the country.
- arm: One was that decommissioning of arms must occur prior to all-party negotiations.
- weapon: Kelly spoke also about the talks with British officials around the demand for a decommissioning of IRA weapons.
- station: Estimates for decommissioning of the current BE stations are in the region of £ 5-6 billion.
- plant: BNFL is the world leader in the decommissioning of nuclear power plants.
Object
- submarine: The UK will have at least 10 decommissioned submarines by the 2008 review.
- reactor: The Italian government has 235 tons of spent fuel from the country's long decommissioned reactors in deteriorating stores.
- liability: Even without the older Magnox reactors, British Energy's decommissioning liabilities are estimated at GBP10 billion with greater uncertainty over waste disposal costs.
- weapon: Rushcliffe Country Park is built on the site of a former Ministry of Defense Depot which was used for storing decommissioned weapons.
- cost: Also we've not mentioned decommissioning costs, which are a cost still to come.
- waste: CoRWM are also considering a fourth option in relation to a limited range of wastes: Near surface disposal of reactor decommissioning waste.
Used with why or when
- that: Devise an alternative method of decommissioning that does not require additional access.
Modifying Another Word
- prior: By mid-June, the demand for decommissioning prior to Sinn Féin's entry into talks was dropped.
- finally: Stocks of munitions were reduced after the war and the site was finally decommissioned and closed in 1961.
- recently: The subject of a new book, Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic, the original Norlantean was decommissioned recently.
- now: The now decommissioned Concorde had visited EDI numerous times.
- fully: Once fully decommissioned, the site could facilitate rural business use or residential development.
- not: Twenty two of theses tanks had been erected on the Ryelands site between 1929 and 1935 and they were not decommissioned until 1999.
Preposition: by
- IRA: Successive British governments have sought final and complete decommissioning by the IRA for over ten years.
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