Nuclear Plants and Nuclear Power Plants

Tokyo Electric Power Co.: Nine utilities with nuclear plants, including the biggest, Tokyo Electric Power Co., which manages the meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1 power station — held their general shareholders’ meetings at a time when a nuclear power plant in the southwest is preparing go back online this summer for the first time under tighter post-Fukushima safety requirements, according to The Japan Times. Japan, which relies heavily on imported energy, invested heavily in nuclear power for decades, making withdrawal from what some believe to be a cheaper, less-polluting power source a difficult proposition to swallow. Despite a number of antinuclear proposals pushed at the shareholders’ meetings, however, officials from the utilities said this week they were eager to restart nuclear power plants as soon as possible after their businesses were staggered by the halt of all commercial nuclear reactors in the country after 3/11. At Tepco meeting, Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of the town of Futaba — which has been rendered uninhabitable by radiation contamination — said pulling out of atomic power is the only way for the company to survive. Futaba co-hosts the Fukushima No. 1 plant. Tepco, as the utility is known, has forced people who were living peacefully into a situation like hell . . . I propose that Tepco break away from nuclear power, the mayor said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.