By the time it was decommissioned, in 1994 21 years after construction had begun the costs had exploded from $70m to $6 billion.
On the contrary, most of the FP pilot plants which have been designed, built, and operated for some time have been decommissioned or mothballed.
Richard Scott, a naval consultant at IHS Jane's, the security and defence analysts, said the Type 26 was "hugely important" to the future of the Navy because the Type 23 frigates, which will have served for more than three decades by the time they are decommissioned, need replacing.
By the time she was decommissioned in 1969, Tiptoe was the last active T-class submarine in the Royal Navy.
Three of the five sites used for the exhibition were open to the public for the first time since being decommissioned.
Whether the insurrectionary spirit of the Vacuum is so easily decommissioned, only time will tell.
At the same time, apart from permanently decommissioned older aircraft, many currently retired planes are only temporarily grounded, to be returned to service before any new orders are placed.
ASCI Blue will be decommissioned over time and turned over for unclassified scientific work.
In humans, for example, about 60% of the 1000 genes for olfactory receptors are so-called pseudogenes that have been decommissioned over time.
One of the new buildings is a museum, suggesting the site is of significant importance to Kim, and is unlikely to be decommissioned any time soon.
Meanwhile, at the time the Teshie plant was decommissioned in 2002, the price of a tonne of compost was just GH¢2 (US$1.43 b.
