President Obama’s announcement yesterday was a great boost for nuclear energy in the United States. The Obama Administration’s support of nuclear energy also represents his ability to move beyond traditional political divisions and work for a genuine solution.

Obama said “even when we have differences, we cannot allow those differences to prevent us from making progress. On an issue that affects our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, we can’t keep on being mired in the same old stale debates between the left and the right, between environmentalists and entrepreneurs….
But investing in nuclear energy remains a necessary step. What I hope is that with this announcement, we’re underscoring both our seriousness in meeting the energy challenge and our willingness to look at this challenge not as a partisan issue but as a matter that’s far more important than politics — because the choices we make will affect not just the next generation but many generations to come.”

A piece from the The Huffington Post by Tamara N. Holder echoes this thought saying the “one issue that both sides need to support and must support: nuclear energy.”