This is the fourth in a series.

In April 1972 the New Jersey Assembly had passed a resolution asking the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to delay issuing permits to build two floating nuclear reactors off Holgate and Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island until several studies could be completed. Two months later, the agency issued its first permit, allowing test boring off Little Egg Harbor so the project could move forward.

As the project gained momentum, there seemed to be no push-back, but on June 27, the Trenton Times carried an article…