TOKYO: The boss of Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) on Friday met local leaders to ask for their blessing to restart the world’s biggest nuclear plant after a public tongue-lashing for bypassing them this week.

Tepco said on Tuesday it would ask Japan’s nuclear watchdog for the green light to re-fire two of the seven units at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa in northern Niigata prefecture.

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