Greenfield status is a term used to describe 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. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" It is synonymous to a status of unrestricted re-use; the older term.

All power plants, coal, gas and nuclear, have a finite life beyond which it is no longer economical to operate them. A power station (also referred to as generating station, power plant or powerhouse) is an industrial facility for the generation of This page is about the physical properties of gas as a state of matter Nuclear power is any Nuclear technology designed to extract usable Energy from atomic nuclei via controlled Nuclear reactions At this point they must be decommissioned; that is, they must be dismantled and their components disposed of ether by sale or scrapping. In some cases the buildings that housed the plant may be put to other uses. However, in many cases contamination is unacceptable and the buildings must be demolished. The land on which the plant sat also may have been polluted with high levels of toxins, and in this case other remedial measures like removal and replacement of the top soil or clay capping may be required to render the site non-hazardous. A toxin ( Greek:, toxikon, lit (poison for use on arrows is a Poisonous substance produced by living cells or organisms that is active at very low

It is becoming standard practice in many jurisdictions to mandate a return to Green Field status at the end of plant service as a condition of the initial site license, and potential licensees must demonstrate that steps will be taken to assure the availability of funds via the posting of a Reclamation Bond for that task before a site-license will be issued. A site license is a type of Software license. The name originally derives from the practice of restricting the use of a particular piece of Software by physical While this concept has mainly applied to the power generating industry, the term is coming into wider use in other areas of industrial decommissioning.

Compare: Brownfield status

See also

• Greenfield land
• Remediation

References

• Remediation of Contaminated Areas: An Overview of International Guidance
• Experiences and Techniques in the Decommissioning of Old Nuclear Power Plants
• RECLAMATION BONDS AND DEVELOPMENT

Brownfield status is a condition within certain legal exclusions and additions of real property the expansion redevelopment or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential Generally remediation means providing a Remedy, so environmental remediation deals with the removal of Pollution or Contaminants from environmental

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