Sentence examples for are decommissioning from inspiring English sources
verb
To take out of service or to render unusable.
- They decommissioned the ship after the accident.
Major costs for EDF are decommissioning the power stations at the end of their lives, the reprocessing of nuclear fuel and the removal and storage of radioactive waste.Under accounting rules, estimates of these costs are added to the capital cost of a nuclear-power station in a company's balance sheet.
And MobileIron claims that while it is device agnostic and has seen 70% of customers make Android devices available, 55% are decommissioning BlackBerry by year's end.
Nickel-59, half-life 760,000 years, and Nickel-63, half-life 100 years, are hazardous if inhaled, according to Idaho National Laboratory: "The major radiological concern with these two nuclides is related to limiting the exposure to people who are decommissioning and dismantling reactors, primarily for reactors in service for more than 30 years". Americium-241, half-life 432 years.
"There has not been decommissioning.
"There has to be decommissioning," Mr. Blair said, using the term for disarmament in the peace accord.
"What we need to see is decommissioning beginning," Mr. Trimble said, using the local phrase for disarmament.
But by far the most important question is this: we now have an idea of what the government will be commissioning, but what will it be decommissioning?
He said they had been decommissioning since July but the bulk of the work had been done in the past week, finishing on Saturday.
Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, said this week that there can be a cabinet of ministers only if Sinn Fein is included and that Sinn Fein cannot be included unless there is decommissioning.
Mr. Heacock said that the experience of another company, Energy Solutions, which is decommissioning Commonwealth Edison's old Zion reactors north of Chicago, was that it might be cheaper to do the job in the next decade or so.
Since 1992 countries around the world have been decommissioning their Morse equipment with similar (if less poetic) sign-offs, as the world's shipping switches over to a new satellite-based arrangement, the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System.
