Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from an active status, and may refer to:
Infrastructure
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Decommissioned offshore
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Decommissioned highway
A decommissioned highway is a highway that has been removed from service by being shut down, or has had its authorization as a national, provincial or state highway removed, the latter also referred to as downloading. Decommissioning can include ...
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Greenfield status of former industrial sites
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Nuclear decommissioning
Nuclear decommissioning is the process whereby a nuclear facility is dismantled to the point that it no longer requires measures for radiation protection.
The presence of radioactive material necessitates processes that are potentially occupat ...
Military
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Decommissioning in Northern Ireland of paramilitary weapons
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Decommissioning pennant, where a navy ship wears an extremely long commissioning pennant at the end of its commission overseas
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Demobilization of soldiers
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Disarmament
Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons. Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry. Disarmament is often taken to mean total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, such as ...
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Ship-Submarine Recycling Program for U.S. nuclear vessels
Other
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Ship decommissioning
Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning. The term is most commonly applied to placing a warship i ...
See also
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Commission (disambiguation)
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End-of-life (product)
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Planned obsolescence
In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so tha ...
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