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Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from an active status, and may refer to:

• Decommissioned offshore of oilfield facilities after production has stopped, reached uneconomical levels or infrastructure is no longer maintainable or safe
• Decommissioned highway of portions no longer part of the road network due to disuse or degradation
• Greenfield status of former industrial sites such as brownfield no longer in use or mining sites after closure
• Nuclear decommissioning after a reactor has been retired due to an accident or become inefficient and no longer meets power output demand (fuel rods eventually do get spent)

• 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

• Ship decommissioning

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

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