Tennessee’s Republican senators have called on the Trump administration to replace the leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, prompting concerns over the public utility’s statutory independence.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty penned an unusually pointed op-ed last week in POWER Magazine that accuses TVA’s top brass of succumbing to “paralysis by analysis,” bogging down the deployment of small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs.
The solution, they say: a new interim CEO appointed by President Donald Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright to help lead a “nuclear energy revival.”
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“TVA must embrace bold action, not bureaucratic hesitation,” the senators wrote. “It’s time to put people in charge who are up to the task.”
