TEPCO shareholders demand end to nuclear power in Japan

Energy company responsible for Fukushima plant wants to restart closed reactors

Furious shareholders in the company that runs Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power station joined campaigners on Thursday to demand the permanent closure of the utility's atomic plants, as it held its annual meeting.

Dozens of demonstrators with loudspeakers and banners said Tokyo Electric Power Co must act to avoid a repetition of the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, where three reactors went into meltdown after Japan's huge earthquake-sparked tsunami.