TVA's CEO Says...

They focus on short term budgeting, then cut maintenance, profits swell...then a bad accident shows up. Then feds makes them spend a ton of money to bring the site back up to average. This is a very expensive way to run a nuclear plant.  

Repeat over and over again.  

TVA raises CEO pay after utility cuts costs, rates, pollution and injuries

Hmm, Bill Jonson. Not much nuclear accolades. 

“With energy demand stagnant or declining for the first time in TVA's 84-year history, Johnson said the current energy market "is as challenging as any in my 40 years in the business" and he said the pace of change is accelerating.”