This is the final part in a series.

This series began trying to answer the question of why today there are no floating nuclear reactors off Long Beach Island and no giant cooling tower in Forked River. Throughout the early 1970s, fish kills at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station and growing opposition to floating offshore reactors helped launch a national anti-nuclear campaign.

According to Nuclear Regulatory Commission historian Thomas Wellock, “Local and state opposition to the plant was intense.