Decommissioning definition

Decommissioning means administrative and technical measures which allow the removal of some or all of the regulatory controls from a nuclear facility and which aim at ensuring the long term protection of the public and the environment, including the reduction of the levels of residual radionuclides in the materials and on the site of the facility.
Decommissioning means the measures taken at the end of a facility's operating life to assure the continued protection of the public from any residual radioactivity or other potential hazards present at a facility.
Decommissioning means conducting final operational activities at a nuclear facility to dismantle site structures, to decon- taminate site surfaces and remaining structures, to stabilize and contain residual radioactive material and to carry out any other activities necessary to prepare the site for postoperational care.

Examples of Decommissioning in a sentence

  • Implementation of the Decommissioning Plan is expected to take approximately six to eight months.

  • The Decommissioning Plan must be approved before the Energy Commission can allow the project owner to proceed with site mobilization and commence facility closure activities.

  • Decommissioning Costs Reserve is the amount determined in accordance with paragraph 4.14(d).

  • The Principal Executive for the NRC will be the Deputy Director, Decommissioning and Uranium Recovery Licensing Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Programs, or his successor in a successor organization, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

  • The Principal Representative for the NRC will be the SLDA Project Manager, Decommissioning and Uranium Recovery Licensing Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Programs, or its successor organization, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555.


More Definitions of Decommissioning

Decommissioning means (i) the disconnection of the Goods from the Seller’s telecommunica- tions network and (ii) the removal of the payphone, ancillary equipment and wiring from within the kiosk. ‘Decommission’, ‘Decommissioning’ and ‘De- commissioned’ shall be construed accordingly in the appropriate tense. 'Goods' means the telephone kiosk or kiosks as more fully described in the schedule to this agreement, which the Buyer agrees to buy from the Seller but exclud- ing any telephony and ancillary apparatus.
Decommissioning means to abandon, decommission, transfer, remove and/or dispose of structures, facilities, installations, equipment and other property and other works used in Petroleum Operations in the Contract Area, to clean the Contract Area and make it good and safe, and to protect the environment, as further set out herein, and in the Petroleum Law and other applicable laws and regulations;
Decommissioning means PacifiCorp’s physical removal from a facility of any equipment and personal property that PacifiCorp determines has salvage value, and physical disconnection of the facility from PacifiCorp’s transmission grid.
Decommissioning means the permanent removal from operation or usage of a product or equipment, containing ozone depleting substances including the final shut-down of an installationfacility;
Decommissioning means the removal or closure of an underground storage tank.
Decommissioning means the final shut-down and removal from operation or usage of a product or piece of equipment containing fluorinated greenhouse gases;
Decommissioning means the removal from operation or usage of a product or equipment, containing fluorinated greenhouse gases, including the final shut-down of an installation;