Nine utilities including Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex, voted down all antinuclear proposals at their general shareholder meetings, with company officials expressing eagerness to reactivate nuclear plants as soon as possible to improve their business conditions hurt by the halt of all nuclear reactors in the country. The shareholders meetings were held at a time when a nuclear plant in southwestern Japan is expected to be the first to go back online, possibly this summer, under new safety requirements. At TEPCO's meeting, Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of Futaba town in Fukushima Prefecture - currently uninhabitable due to radiation contamination - said pulling out of nuclear power is the only way for the company to survive and to put people back to work to produce power for the region. TEPCO President Naomi Hirose told the shareholders that he believes nuclear power generation is very important for a stable supply of electricity and for lower prices. Some TEPCO shareholders also called for putting a priority on promoting renewable energy such as solar and wind, but the company opposed the motion because the economics do not support such technology as windmills and sun dials at this time in their development for other than remote villages not connected to the main power grid. The Japanese utilities eagerness to revive nuclear power is in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plan to reactivate reactors that have met the new safety regulations instituted after the Fukushima plant was damaged by the tsunamis.
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