This is the 10th in a series.

At the time few people realized that a fish kill in August 1973 at the Oyster Creek nuclear reactor on Route 9 in Lacey Township would trigger a series of events that would affect the nation’s energy policy, but within days the local planning board put a hold on the nearby construction of a second much larger reactor, stating they needed more time for the experts to sort out the facts.

This action was followed by a flurry of newspaper articles about the plant’s construction problems as well as the…