From the early 1990s the Authority completed more decommissioning work than anyone in Europe, and had considerable success in regenerating former nuclear sites for commercial use.

Sellafield is an off-shoot from the original nuclear reactor site at Windscale, which is currently undergoing decommissioning and dismantling.

The total cost of decommissioning Magnox activities is likely to exceed £ 20 billion, averaging about £ 2 billion per productive reactor site.

On 21 October 2011 the Japanese government installed a commission to study ways to cut wasteful expenditures, one possibility would be decommissioning the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor.

* Power generation might be economical compared to current nuclear reactor designs if the total fuel cycle and decommissioning costs are considered.

This reactor is currently undergoing a decommissioning and cleanup process.

The primary facilities decommissioning is expected to be complete in 2023 with the reactor decommissioning completed in 2031 and final site clearance achieved in 2064

The E & T activities at SCK • CEN cover a. o. reactor physics, reactor operation, reactor engineering, radiation protection, decommissioning and waste management.

As the first PWR reactor in Europe to be decommissioned, the decommissioning of the reactor was an important pilot project.

The $ 98 million ( 1985 estimate ) cleanup of Shippingport has been used as an example of a successful reactor decommissioning by proponents of nuclear power.

Following the reactor decommissioning, Fort St. Vrain was converted to a combustion facility.

At the end of April 2005, they celebrated the decommissioning of the Obrigheim nuclear power station.

I find it sad, but all too human, that there are vast bureaucracies concerned about nuclear waste, huge organisations devoted to decommissioning power stations, but nothing comparable to deal with that truly malign waste, carbon dioxide.

* Funded Decommissioning Programme ( UK ), an agreement between the Secretary of State and a new nucelar power station operator setting out costs for decommissioning and waste management and how the operator will ensure that sufficient finances for those activities exist.

Calder Hall, another neighbour of Windscale is also undergoing decommissioning and dismantling of its 4 nuclear power generating reactors.

Then in December the party split over the issue of Sinn Féin taking up its seats in the power sharing executive without prior Provisional Irish Republican Army decommissioning of weapons.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority ( NDA ) is responsible for the decommissioning of the UK Magnox power plants, at an estimated cost of £ 12. 6 billion.

On 11 February 2010, Unión Fenosa transferred the site's ownership to Enresa, a Spanish company responsible for decommissioning the power station.

The first visible sign of decommissioning was controlled demolition at 09. 00 BST on 20 May 2007 of the four natural draught concrete cooling towers of the same hyperboloid design as conventional inland power stations such as Didcot, Drax, Ferrybridge and Fiddlers Ferry.

The choice of method was influenced by economic and social factors, safety aspects, and decommissioning work experience at other nuclear power plants.

It is also involved in power operations, fuel production and reprocessing, international decommissioning, and international transportation.

The former Latina nuclear power plant is now shutdown and undergoing decommissioning.

* Physical asset management: the practice of managing the whole life cycle ( design, construction, commissioning, operating, maintaining, repairing, modifying, replacing and decommissioning / disposal ) of physical and infrastructure assets such as structures, production and service plant, power, water and waste treatment facilities, distribution networks, transport systems, buildings and other physical assets.

During the GDR period up to 10, 000 employees worked at the power station ; presently there are approximately 1, 000 involved in the decommissioning effort.

The last few years have seen the running down of the nuclear power industry and the growth of the nuclear decommissioning industry.

In response, Hamlet implemented a cost-cutting plan which called for decommissioning of vessels, closing of Coast Guard stations, manpower reductions, and a 25 % reduction in expenditures.

Indirect, social or environmental costs such as the economic value of environmental impacts, or environmental and health effects of the complete fuel cycle and plant decommissioning, are not usually assigned to generation costs for thermal stations in utility practice, but may form part of an environmental impact assessment.

The wardroom of the oldest active submarine in the United States Pacific Fleet carries World War II submarine commander and Medal of Honor winner RADM Dick O ' Kane's personal cribbage board on board, and upon decommissioning it is transferred to the next oldest boat.

" Ships of the United States Navy fly the commissioning pennant from the moment of commissioning until the decommissioning ceremony.

Her last operation after decommissioning was her old job of delivering bananas and cruise ship passengers for the United Fruit Company.

All studies on fast reactors have been stopped in countries such as Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the only work being carried out is related to the decommissioning of fast reactors.

USS Enterprise ( CVN 65 ) became the oldest active ship in the United States Navy upon the decommissioning of USS Kitty Hawk ( CV 63 ) on 12 May 2009.

* USS Bataan ( CVL-29 ), commissioned on November 17, 1943, the United States Navy Independence class aircraft carrier commemorated those who served and sacrificed in the Philippines in the name of freedom in the Pacific until her decommissioning on April 9, 1954.

After its decommissioning as a mint, the building served a variety of purposes, including as an assay office, a United States Coast Guard storage facility and a fallout shelter.

The CIRA continues to oppose the Belfast Agreement and, unlike the Provisional IRA ( and the Real IRA in 1998 ), the CIRA has not announced a ceasefire or agreed to participate in weapons decommissioning — nor is there any evidence that it will.

" Such compensation could be in monetary terms, decommissioning of the dam, official recognition of past and current injustices suffered, or complete restoration of the ecosystems.

The series ' final episode, " These Are the Voyages ...", reveals that Sato remains Archer's communications officer throughout his tenure as captain, and was considering resuming her teaching career in Brazil following the ship's decommissioning.

After decommissioning and delivery, the spacecraft is displayed in Virginia at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.

Defueling usually coincides with decommissioning.

The first aircraft carrier due for decommissioning that would enter the SRP is planned to be Enterprise, intended for withdrawal in 2013.

* On April 17, 2012, the Space Shuttle Discovery was ferried to Dulles mounted to a NASA 747-100 as part of its decommissioning and installation in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Waste from nuclear weapons decommissioning is unlikely to contain much beta or gamma activity other than tritium and americium.

* According to estimates released in October 2007, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer ( FUSE ) space telescope, decommissioned that month, will continue orbiting the earth until it burns up in the atmosphere approximately 30 years after its decommissioning.

There were no decommissioning engineering tests on the spacecraft.

* 26 March: The LVF warned that there would be a great strain on its ceasefire if the Provisional IRA did not begin decommissioning.

Having been sealed since decommissioning in 1944, it has survived fairly intact.

On 2 September 2006, BBC News reported the UVF may be intending to re-enter dialogue with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, with a view to decommissioning of their weapons.

In June 2009 the UVF formally decommissioned their weapons in front of independent witnesses as a formal statement of decommissioning was read by Dawn Purvis and Billy Hutchinson.

The IICD confirmed that " substantial quantities of firearms, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices " had been decommissioned and that for the UVF and RHC, decommissioning had been completed.

In recent years, major oil companies have left the area, turning over their oil leases to small independents, and decommissioning some leases areas that were no longer profitable.

This resulted in the decommissioning of Interstate 40 Business through Greensboro.

Fort Ord was selected in 1991 for decommissioning and the post formally closed after troop reassignment in 1994.

Prior to its decommissioning, the fabled Route 66 also shared a concurrence with these Interstate highways.

Several cleanup and decommissioning projects have been attempted, with none completed as of 2011.

In October 2009, after a long period of inactivity, the Official IRA began talks with a view to decommissioning its stockpile of weapons, and in February 2010 the Newry based Official Republican Movement announced that the process was complete.