kashiwazaki kariwa is the world's largest nuclear power plant. the utility is again trying to persuade niigata's governor to support restarting two of its seven reactors. tepco head naomi i had row say wants approval for a government safety check to reactors. the two men met on wednesday. in july, izumida criticized tepco for pushing ahead with the safety checks without local consent. he accused them of trying to install vents at the plant without informing the authority. hirose took a pile of documents to wednesday's meeting. the documents detailed the modifications being done at kashiwazaki kariwa to meet stringent new safety guidelines. >> translator: please take these documents to allow the installation of filter vents at the plant. >> the governor refused to take the documents in july. he accepted them this time but still showed he would be no pushover. >> translator: i've asked this question before and i'll ask it again. which is more important for tepco, money or safety? >> hirose says, naturally enough, safety. struggling tepco is despera

the reactors are part of the kashiwazaki-kariwa nuclear power plant in niigata prefecture, central japan. tepco officials submitted an application for a safety screening to the nuclear regulation authority on friday. rules that went into effect in july require that boiling water reactors like those at the plant have filtered vents. such vents are designed to release pressure in reactor containment vessels during emergencies while limiting the emission of radioactive substances. tepco's managing executive officer takafumi anegawa said niigata's governor has asked that the use of such vents be approved by the prefecture. he said he will relay that request to regulatory agency officials. a team of 80 experts at the regulatory agency is screening applications for six other plants with pressurized water reactors. this is the first time applications for boiling water reactors have been subject to such review. >>> the kashiwazaki-kariwa plant is the world's largest in terms of total output. it has seven reactors. they've been idle for up to six years, but before they're put back online, the com

. >>> kashiwazaki kariwa is the world's largest nuclear power plant. operator tokyo electric power company is again trying to persuade niigata's governor to support restarting two of its six reactors. they want the approval for government safety checks to the reactors. the last time they met in july,

it hopes getting the reactors back online at kashiwazaki kariwa will give it some breathing space. >>> fishermen from fukushima have unloaded five tons of marine life they hauled in after resuming test catches. they suspended offshore trial fishing at the beginning of the month following revelations that highly radioactive water was leaking at the damaged nuclear plant. crews of 21 trawlers returned to a port in soma city in north fukushima. fishermen can only go after 16 types of seafood found to have either no contamination or levels of radiation well within safely limits. and they must drop their nets, traps or lines at least 50 kilometers from the plant, at a depth of at least 150 meters. the crews unloaded 5.2 tons including giant octopus, spear squid and hairy crab. they're having samples tested for radioactivity. if it's safe, their cooperative plans to ship the catch to local markets, tokyo and elsewhere. >> translator: we don't want consumers to feel biasedy our fish. we want to show they are just like any other fish, caught anywhere else. >> the fukushima fisheries federatio