Decommission

They decommissioned the ship after the accident.

The Army decommissioned the Sherman tank by filling the turret with cement.

By July 1988, when NRC [the Nuclear Regulatory Commission] began requiring licensees to provide specific assurances that funds would be available to decommission their plants, 114 plants were already licensed to operate. At that time, NRC required licensees to provide "reasonable assurance" that sufficient funds would be available to decommission their nuclear power plants.

The failure of loyalist paramilitaries to decommission weapons was, therefore, less about ideology than about more practical considerations. There were several other reasons why loyalist paramilitaries were not prepared to decommission weapons. Since republicans had not stated that the war was over loyalists saw no reason to unilaterally decommission.

There are a large number of nuclear and radiological facilities, including legacy sites worldwide, that have been decommissioned successfully, are either currently in an active decommissioning phrase, or will require decommissioning in the near future[…].

Organizations may be forced by vendors to decommission systems because product releases are not supported any more, or the organizations may opt for expensive maintenance contracts for products, which are no longer officially supported by the vendor. […] [O]nce an organization is in a lock-in situation, the organization may be forced to decommission due to the product release strategy of the suppliers.

The first project reaps a positive cash flow of $25,000 in the first four years and then decommissions the investment with a positive cash flow of $470,000 in the fifth year. The second project offers twice as much positive cash flow in the first four years. The third project does not reap any annual cash flows, but decommissions the investment in the second year for $490,000.

Pitlochry signal box (which previously controlled the passing loop through the station) was also decommissioned at this time and now awaits a future use, […]