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Nuclear decommissioning, the process of closing a nuclear facility; Decommissioned highway, a disused road or one removed of numbered highway status; Greenfield status, a decommissioned industrial site considered back to its pre-establishment condition
Decommissioning includes all steps as described in the decommissioning plan, leading to the release of a nuclear facility from regulatory control. The decommissioning plan is fulfilled when the approved end state of the facility has been reached. Disposal facilities for radioactive waste are closed rather than decommissioned. The use of the ...
Deconsecration, also referred to as decommissioning or secularization (a term also used for confiscation of church property), [1] is the removal of a religious sanction and blessing from something that had been previously consecrated for spiritual use.
It is national public law in its constitutional, administrative, criminal, and public health aspects. It is a national private law as it regulates liability for nuclear damage. It may, by reserving certain kinds of sources or other radioactive materials to public property, trespass by public law into what would normally be the field of private law.
Greenfield status (also known as "unrestricted re-use" [1]) is an end point wherein a parcel of land that had been in industrial use is, in principle, restored to the conditions existing before the construction of the plant.
A decommissioned highway is a highway that has been removed from service by being shut down, or has had its authorization as a national, provincial or state highway removed, the latter also referred to as downloading.
At common law, this was the name of a mixed action (springing from the earlier personal action of ejectione firmae) which lay for the recovery of the possession of land, and for damages for the unlawful detention of its possession. The action was highly fictitious, being in theory only for the recovery of a term for years, and brought by a ...
Mine closure is the period of time when the ore-extracting activities of a mine have ceased, and final decommissioning and mine reclamation are being completed. It is generally associated with reduced employment levels, which can have a significant negative impact on local economies.