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...In a March 20 guest column, Tennessee’s two Republican U.S. senators urged TVA officials to opt for “an interim CEO trusted by the president” before hiring someone long-term. They wrote that studies and hurdles under the TVA board were bogging down a project that seeks to build a small modular nuclear reactor...

...On March 31, the five remaining board members picked TVA’s executive vice president and chief operating officer Don Moul to become the new CEO. Moul has since called for reevaluating the lifespan of TVA’s fleet of coal plants. The utility has been planning to retire the last of them by 2035. But Trump has signed executive orders aimed at boosting the coal industry...

...This weekend, a guest column by Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee called for a “a new board and a clear, aggressive mission” to further Trump’s goal of quadrupling domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years. Trump signed executive orders in May to speed up the development.