decommission - withdraw from active service; "The warship was decommissioned in 1998"
call back, withdraw, call in, recall - cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"
For comparison, the average projected cost--based on estimates required by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission--for individual utilities to decommission the plants in which they have ownership was $546 million.
In the long run, Pollock expects that the financial uncertainties -- not only how much it will cost to decommission a large commercial plant but also whether a utility will be able to afford those costs when a plant's retirement time arrives--will prove less important than the radwaste issue.
The event at the Wynyard Hall Hotel on September 16 will focus on the growth of the sector, its increasing supply chain requirements and the challenges it faces to decommission hundreds of UK offshore assets in the coming years.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is considering the option of an international undertaking to decommission reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, a challenge that will need to be tackled in full swing in the years to come.
As well as decommission resulting from anti-nuclear sentiments, a large number of reactors reaching the end of their operating lives are to be shutdown.
WORK to decommission Wales' only closed nuclear power station is behind schedule with the cost jumping 25% in just two years, a report from the National Audit Office, out this morning, says.
Indeed, North America is expected to shutdown fewer nuclear reactors than other continents, with the US closing five and Canada set to decommission 17.
