AS I said in my last letter to the editor, please stop wasting print and blowing hot air and pushing for a nuclear facility in the CNMI. The future of the CNMI is already moving swiftly toward renewable energy, a two billion dollar manufacturing industry, funding for education to develop technical programs and an associated global expansion of the CNMI tourist industry. Your short-sighted plan to bring a nuclear facility here is doomed. Nobody here will support it. I worked in the nuclear industry, wrote nearly all the software, including safety monitoring packages and contrary to your claims of safety, the type of reactor you propose has in fact, failed, and in one instance killed everyone at the plant. Look it up.
It has yet to achieve a single instance of a 30 year track record of operation without problems. In fact, based on DOE, NRC and other oversight agencies, the technology for that type of reactor has been burdened with reactors being shut down prematurely and investments lost. To continue to badger the people of the CNMI with your proposition to bring such a facility here is to doom both their tourist industry, as one failure will do, and doom their entire way of life, as an event will do. Stop trying to kill this place with a disaster in the making. You’re wasting your time and demonstrating a complete lack of knowledge of the scientific data out there for anyone, as you say, to “Google.”
You quote France has having a sterling nuclear record, but fail to mention that they are shutting down their reactors prematurely and are importing power to make up the difference and are now scrambling for renewable energy; aka wind power. How old are those reports you are reading?
You quote figures for the price of power, but have no wide-range plan on overall CNMI economic impact, which our plan had; ask the readers if they’d rather have a booming economy and jobs paying $20-$50/hr if it meant paying 5 cents more for power and I think you’ll find they prefer my plan to a nuke plant that does nothing for the economy on a wide ranging scale.
With regards to your statement that starts your letter by describing me perspective as: “warm and fuzzy self-aggrandizing diatribe regarding Saipan’s future, but did not cite a single scientific fact or reference, nor did you address any of the data I presented.”
I remind you that you had an opportunity, a personal invitation no less, to attend the congressional meeting where we discussed wind power and the two billion dollar economic impact. You refused to go.
I remind you that these letters to the editor are limited in space, whereas the details, finances and milestones are all described in documents that Congress has reviewed and which are available on our website; you refuse to read them.
I remind you again that I have more experience working in both the nuclear industry and the wind power industry than anyone else in the CNMI; hands down. You refuse to acknowledge that fact.
You refuse to attend meetings, refuse to read details financial reports, refuse to listen to “scientists and experts” even when they beg you to come to meetings and read reports, and then blast me in the press with letters to the editor, apparently in total denial of the facts surrounding your own ignorance.
Frankly sir, to my eyes you are a disgrace to the scientific community. I don’t know what the Dr. stands for in your name, but from what I have seen and read, most likely it has to do with some sort of veterinary medicine, primarily related to the backside of a bull.
Get off your horse and go away. Go get an education and come back when you’ve learned how to read.

CRAIG MEAD
Teacher, Legal and Financial
Advisor to Governments and Industry
NASA/NACA Wind Turbine Airfoil and Drive Train Designer: Active
Nuclear Power Plant Engineer and Auditor: Retired