0 present participle of decommission --
1 to take equipment or weapons out of use: --
It would cost $300 million to decommission the nuclear installation.
The government has decided to decommission two battleships.
It is instructive to remember that this time last year the talks participants were still deadlocked on the decommissioning question.
Self-evidently the best way to generate the necessary confidence is for the paramilitaries to make a start to the decommissioning process.
Of course, we hope that the loyalist paramilitaries will respond by decommissioning arms themselves.
I agree that we must address the decommissioning issue across the board, and that includes loyalist paramilitaries.
The first is for the paramilitaries to make a start to decommissioning before all-party negotiations.
Some people want to treat decommissioning as a matter that can simply be pre-emptively imposed on the paramilitaries.
However, it is unsustainable because of problems with decommissioning nuclear power stations and disposing of wastes.
Calculations that have been made indicate that there is advantage in allowing radioactivity to decay before decommissioning is undertaken.
