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

• Ship decommissioning

See also

• Commission (disambiguation)
• Planned obsolescence
• End-of-life (product)