This is the fifth in a series.

In September 1972, an event took place on a yacht off the southern end of Long Beach Island that would affect the entire nation.

The Trenton Times reported, “Public Service has taken another step toward realization of its plan to anchor floating nuclear generating plants off New Jersey. The company has signed a $750 million contract with Offshore Power Systems which calls for the delivery by 1979 of two 1.15 million kilowatt plants to be moored within a vast man-made breakwater, a little under 3…