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• v  withdraw from active service
  The warship was decommissioned in 1998

• The D word--decommissioning--effectively stymied successive efforts by the two governments to break the logjam until the Mitchell deal two weeks ago.
• The same day Mandelson put Ulster's government in the deep freeze, the international body in charge of decommissioning chaired by Canadian General John de Chastelain suddenly .
• If they don't decommission and we have to suspend the institutions of government, we'll be no worse off than we are today.

News & Articles

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• Decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Plant May Take Decades
  gkndivebum writes "Southern California Edison has elected to decommission the San Onofre nuclear plant after a failed effort to upgrade the steam generation system. 'Nuclear economics' is the reason stated for the proposed decommissioning. Other utilities operating nuclear power plants in the US likely face similar decisions when it comes to weighing the costs of upgrading older facilities ...
  June 9, 2013 - Slashdot
• Calif. plant closing affects area
  OAK HARBOR, Ohio — A southern California utility’s decision to decommission a nuclear power plant plagued by trouble with its replacement steam generators reinforces the need for deep scrutiny of proposed steam-generator replacement at the Davis-Besse plant near Toledo, an anti-nuclear activist coalition contends.
  June 9, 2013 - The Toledo Blade
• San Onofre to be decommissioned
  SAN ONOFRE, Calif – The process to decommission San Onofre Nuclear Power Station will be a long one beginning with the cleanup of contaminated structures and removal of the radioactive fuel. All this will happen well before Edison begins to …
  June 8, 2013 - FOX 5 San Diego

Quotes

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• Michael McDowell in International Herald Tribune
  There is no position whatsoever between being armed and being unarmed for the IRA,said McDowell, the justice minister. "If the IRA are decommissioning, they must decommission all their weapons in their entirety, every single pistol, every...
• Robert Byrd in Fort Wayne News Sentinel
  The October 2002 authorization to use force has run its course. It is time, past time, to decommission this authorization and retire it to the archives,Byrd said. "If the president has more that he wants to do in Iraq, then he needs to...
• Ian Paisley in BBC News
  Speaking after the meeting, DUP leader Ian Paisley said: "It is quite clear that the IRA are not going to decommission. Nothing on decommissioning was agreed with them. Not only photographs, but nothing was discussed or settled about the independent...