Anti-nuclear activists continue their protest in Tokyo

Noda declined their demand to switch off two reactors that were restarted this summer amid looming power shortages, and repeated his government’s plans to adopt a new energy policy to reduce the country’s dependence on atomic power

The energy policy together with energy regulation body normally comes first before consideration of restarts. It is the regulatory body that recomends restarts after a thorough consultation process, not PM.

Shame that Japan has done well even during the hotest months of July and August without power cuts and without reaching capacity. The Oi reactors were switched on for other reasons, not because Japan wanted them as there had been no shortage of electricity to warrant that.......Thrilled that the myth of justification for switching on nuke plants to meet electricity during so-called summer months is bursted. Japan has never afterall needed electricty from nukes, even during summer!!!!!