In over 28 years in Nuclear Plant Operations I've never seen, or heard of, an incident that could be attributed to cost cutting. If anything nuke plants could be more profitable if they did cut some costs. Control room operators are, in some ways, over trained after obtaining a licence from the Feds to operate that plant. They then, and forever, spend one week in 6 in 40 hours of training. That could easily be halved after holding a license for 5 years or more. The admin size of each plant has ballooned over the years, in some cases more than tripled. Again, cost cutting is not on the list of nuclear plant troubles.