Mr. Cuomo also insisted that before it recesses the Legislature pass a bill authorizing the Power Authority to build generating plants on Long Island to replace the Shoreham nuclear reactor.

In a ceremony held Tuesday at the site of the defunct Shoreham nuclear power plant, Richard M. Kessel dedicated two wind turbines that will supply power to Long Island, something the 809-megawatt Shoreham reactor never did.

Contemplating a post-nuclear era, the purchasers of the idle Shoreham reactor on Long Island today toured a failed nuclear project here that is about to emerge as a huge gas-fired electric plant.

For the Shoreham reactor on Long Island, paradoxically, the President's action virtually assures that Governor Cuomo will win approval of a plan to close the plant.

Lilco suspended the dividends in March 1984 because of cost overruns on its Shoreham nuclear reactor.

Like the Shoreham reactor, the one at Seabrook, which has cost more than $5 billion and was completed in 1986, has been blocked from receiving a license by a dispute over just such emergency planning.

The situation at the Shoreham reactor, on Long Island, is more complex.

The idle Shoreham reactor would have bankrupted the company by now had not an exception been made from the standard regulatory pattern.

The Shoreham reactor, on Long Island, is finished but under an agreement with New York State, will never operate.

Lilco had planned to retire some of the plants after the Shoreham reactor came on line.