The regional power utilities told their shareholders at annual meetings Thursday they will try to reactivate their idled nuclear reactors to improve business and rejected all proposals calling for a nuclear phaseout.
The eight regional utilities also faced their stakeholders on the same day that the largest one, Tokyo Electric Power Co., which managed the meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, held its shareholders' meeting in Tokyo.
Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Michiaki Uriu said he wanted to reactivate reactor Nos. 1 and 2 at its Sendai nuclear complex in Kagoshima Prefecture. The two units are seen as the closest to passing the new safety tests required to restart.