Tepco Faces Down Protest to Press Ahead With Atomic Restarts

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. pledged to restart reactors at the world’s largest atomic plant, rejecting a bid by anti-nuclear shareholders to scrap the units over safety concerns after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

The company’s annual general meeting voted down motions advanced by Greenpeace and other activist groups holding Tokyo Electric shares to decommission the reactors and to revise the company’s recovery plan to exclude nuclear power.