we're joined by the bbc's roland burke. the government there saying quite clearly that power cuts are very much a real possibility . >> yes. he was talking about a 10% gap between demand and supply. he said the japanese decide he couldn't survive without the abundance of cheap and stable electricity. he talked about a hollowing out of japan's economy, the fear that manufacturing could go abroad. the risks to people's jobs. what the prime minister was doing was setting out the reason why the oil reactors, those two reactors in the west for the country should be switched back on. the idea is to try to get some kind of consensus, to try to persuade local authorities around that reactor to disagree then the government will be able to make a decision to restart those reactors perhaps as early as next week. and i think that the thinking of the government is that this could set a template of how reactors could be restarted because it's not just about this one plan. across japan, all 50 of the country's nuclear reactors are now off