The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant located in East Shoreham, Long Island (a borough of the Outer Lands). Adjacent to the the Long Island Sound, the plant consists of a single boiling water reactor with the power capacity of 820 megawatts. Announced in 1965 as a means to ease power consumption on Long Island, the plant gained little opposition initially. As the anti-nuclear sentiment rose in the United States of America by the 1970s, the completion of the plant was continually delayed over environmental and safety concerns of the power plant (as well as the growing costs to address these concerns).