Decommissioning began in 1995, two years after it ceased operating.
The power station was taken off line in 1991 and decommissioning began in 1993.
Who tests us more than Donald Trump?" The decommissioning began with a local school band – 46 students in spangly costumes and tasselled blue and white uniforms – parading through the office, playing The Washington Post march, which was composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889.
Additionally, a small plant will begin decommissioning by 2013 and waste sent to France last century will also be returned.
Particularly divisive was the issue of whether to cooperate with Sinn Féin given the IRA's failure to begin decommissioning.
The fledgling political institutions were headed for collapse today at midnight because the Ulster Unionist leader, David Trimble, insisted he could not resume his post as first minister unless the IRA began decommissioning arms.
This was no big deal: just a scribble, really, in the margin of Peter Mandelson's master-plan to rescue the Good Friday agreement and reconvene the Northern Ireland assembly, which as Northern Ireland secretary he felt compelled to dissolve last February when the IRA failed to begin decommissioning its weapons.
Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, has been the largest party in the council for several years, but the small cross-community Alliance Party, which holds the balance in the council, had withheld its support until the IRA began decommissioning its weapons.
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In all likelihood Donaldson will wait another week because Trimble has already erected his own political gallows with his now familiar lodging of a letter of resignation, post-dated July 1, that unless the IRA begin decommissioning he will resign as first minister.
