"There is no change at all that Fukushima is our basic focus," TEPCO Chairman Takashi Kawamura said to Uchibori at a meeting in the prefectural government office, after explaining that TEPCO's new management team was launched after approval at a general meeting of its shareholders on Friday.

Kawamura said, "We will proceed safely and steadily with the decommissioning work for the Fukushima No. 1 plant," where a serious nuclear accident occurred after the March 2011 major earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. The prefecture hosts the plant.

Meanwhile, Uchibori said the people of Fukushima Prefecture strongly want all reactors at TEPCO's Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant, also located in the prefecture, to be decommissioned, the same as they want the decommissioning of the Fukushima No. 1 plant and the implementation of accident compensation plans.

Since the 2011 disaster, TEPCO has halted all four reactors at the No. 2 plant. The Fukushima prefectural assembly and the assemblies of all 59 municipalities in Fukushima have adopted resolutions calling on the company to decommission the No. 2 plant or taken similar steps.

"We take the resolutions seriously," TEPCO President Tomoaki Kobayakawa said at the meeting with Uchibori.

On the possible decommissioning of the reactors at the Fukushima No. 2 plant, however, Kobayakawa did not go any further than saying that his company will continue to discuss it.

From Tuesday, Kobayakawa will visit Fukushima municipalities, including the towns of Naraha and Tomioka, where many residents have been evacuated due to the nuclear accident. (Jiji Press)