Officials from the central government announced they made progress on convincing residents that it is safe to restart two idled reactors at Oi's nuclear plant during a meeting Thursday evening.
But only around 540 people turned up for the event, less than 6 percent of the town's inhabitants and only 10 percent of its registered voters.
Attendees' questions on restarting reactors 3 and 4 at Kansai Electric Power Co's power station indicated that while many fear the local economy will continue to suffer as long as they remain offline, they nevertheless feel the central government's definition of safety is overly narrow and technical, and fails to explain the situation in a clear and easy to understand manner.