In the same week, the World Bank approved funding for nuclear energy projects, lifting a ban that had been in place since 2013 and signaling growing international financial support for nuclear development as a key component of the clean energy transition. In contrast, the traditional “environmental” movement has heavily opposed nuclear energy, shifting its arguments over time but consistently resisting nuclear power on ideological or precautionary grounds. He ended Germany’s decades-long opposition to nuclear power within the European Union by aligning with French President Emmanuel Macron and agreed that Germany would no longer lobby against nuclear energy at the EU level. These efforts underscore a renewed commitment to nuclear energy as a cornerstone of the United States’ clean energy strategy. After decades of delay, nuclear energy is no longer relegated to the energy of the past but understood to be the backbone of the future.