It was proposed in the 1970s by the Public Service Electric and Gas Company.
Two Westinghouse 1,150 MWe (net) pressurized water reactors were ordered in 1972, and another two Westinghouse 1,150 MWe (net) reactors were ordered in 1973.
[1] To be located 1.8 miles (2.9 km) offshore from the Little Egg Harbor and Great Bay (about 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Atlantic City), the plants were to be on man-made islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
[2] 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.
[2] However, due to increasing costs and environmental protests, the plants were canceled in 1978.