Con Ed Proposed Building Nuclear Reactor Next Door To Roosevelt Island At Ravenswood Power Plant in Long Island City, Queens

Image Of NY Times Article From Murmurs of Earth

The  proposed Con Ed Nuclear Power plant in Long Island City across the East River from Roosevelt Island was projected to generate a capacity of 1 million kilowatts.

OK - stop freaking out - the proposal was made in 1963 and rejected. Read more about the plan from 1963 articles in the NY Times and Village Voice.

According to the NY Times:

... If New Yorkers will accept fission for profit as a neighbor, most city-dwelling Americans may expect to do so one day. But if New Yorkers banish it to the countryside, the cities of tomorrow may be bypassed by the industrial development of the atomic age Which risk should a city take?...

Via patrickdijusto tweet:

1963 New York Times story on the proposed nuclear power plant in New York City.

The Ravenswood power plant is now known as Big Allis. More about Big Allis from previous posts.