Worth noting that this power plant was run by an arm of the United States government.
Until then it's just an anecdotal bit of snark that serves a political world view without the evidence necessary to evaluate it.
Do you believe public operation had an impact on safety? Better or worse, and based on what evidence? If neither, how is your statement relevant to the discussion?
What do you think taxes are? They're a wealth transfer without option from everyone else to those in the employ of government.
A whole bunch of people are profit from government expenditure, we even have a word for a special type of fraud about government expenditure: pork barelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel
But, government run operations tend he notorious for incompetence for a few reasons, others have done a better job of detailing:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=why+governments+are+notorious+...
It's instructive to consider some thought experiments/scenarios:
What if...
a) Both were run by the government. In this case you'd have people of certain political parties screaming about government incompetence, and how the best solution would be to eliminate regulations and privatize, since competition somehow guarantees better results.
b) Foreigners deliberately engineered both situations, an act of terrorism. In which case as certain administrations after 9/11, the US might pick some country that didn't have anything to do with it and go to war.
c) Private companies were responsible. This is actually the case and the collective attitude was generally "eh, shit happens, private companies just trying to run a business". Just declare bankruptcy and walk. No real changes made in either case.
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explos...
2 -