Research Infrastructure Decommissioning: A Perspective on Planning for the End of a Facility

Authors

  • Hristo-P Boyadzhiev Centre for Innovation Policy, Osogovo Institute of Advanced Technology, Kyustendil, Bulgaria Author
  • Anders-Kristian Isdahl Centre for Technology Foresight, Nordmore Centre for Emerging Materials, Kristiansund, Norway Author
  • Gerlinde-M Gollner Department of Skills and Workforce Studies, Wechselland Centre for Emerging Materials, Friedberg, Austria Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22674655

Keywords:

Research Infrastructure Decommissioning; Next-generation R&D; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Research Infrastructure Decommissioning has moved quickly from a niche engineering question to something a wider community
can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the
current evidence for research infrastructure decommissioning, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles,
with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where engineers and reviewers are still largely working it out for
themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.

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