Decommissioning
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Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from an active status. Specific instances include:
- Infrastructure
- Decommissioned highway
- Greenfield status of former industrial sites
- Nuclear decommissioning of power plants
- Military
- Decommissioning in Northern Ireland of paramilitary weapons
- Decommissioning pennant, where a navy ship wears an extremely long commissioning pennant at the end of its commission overseas
- Demobilization of soldiers
- Disarmament
- Ship-Submarine Recycling Program for U.S. nuclear vessels
- Other
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