Much to the chagrin of the misanthropes that continually bellow their hatred of the human species by singing along to ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ in their Chevrolet Volts; President Obama continued his rational and principled stance on nuclear power in the wake of the damage to the Japanese nuclear power plants.

“It remains a part of the president’s overall energy plan,” said the president’s White House Spokesman, Jay Carney, when asked about how the situation in Japan would affect the future of American nuclear energy. This reaffirmation continues the realistic position that President Obama stated in his most recent State of the Union address when he said,

“…that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies. And, yes, it means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America.”

Whether you agree with each of the methods of power generation or not, the president cannot be faulted for vigorously pursuing a plethora of options in order to solve one of America’s most crippling problems.

While knuckle-draggers across a wide swath of media outlets ran headlines such as “Another Chernobyl?” and “Fears of a Three Mile Island repeat,” and German Chancellor Angela Merkel utilized her knee-jerk reaction to kick her country’s nuclear production into the garbage, President Obama maintained a steady hand.

Instead of the reactionary edicts issued by his German counterpart, the president called together his nuclear experts. The end result of the meetings was a commitment to glean as much information as possible out of the incident in Japan, and then to move on with production and development of reactors and facilities designed to withstand the conditions thrown at them.