Kazuhiko Shimokobe, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), speaks during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. Tepco may ask the government for more funds to cover decontamination and reactor decommissioning costs from last year's nuclear disaster at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic plant. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images