The Atlantic Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed floating nuclear power plant located off the coast of

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. It was proposed in the 1970s by the

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. Two Westinghouse 1,150 MW_e (net)

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s were ordered in 1972, and another two Westinghouse 1,150 MW_e (net) reactors were ordered in 1973. The four unit power plant proposal was canceled in 1978.Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report 1997
p. 61. To be located offshore from the

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and Great Bay (about northeast of Atlantic City), the plants were to be on man-made islands in the

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. The islands themselves and the massive concrete breakwaters would be built in a factory on

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near

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; they would then be floated by ship to the plant site. The plants were first envisioned in 1969 by an engineer at PSE&G and the reactors were ordered in 1972 for operation starting in the mid-1980s. However, due to increasing costs and environmental protests, the plants were canceled in 1978.

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Cancelled Nuclear Units Ordered in the United StatesPopular Science Dec 1972 via Google BooksThe Proposal for a Floating Nuclear Powerplant in the Mid-Atlantic (see page 197)
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