Something else must be going on it’s no biggie to rent a generator to run a whole plant.
With their pull the electric utility should easily have had one up and running the cooling pumps by now even in this disaster.
Well apparently the diesel generators that they have are either damaged or the circuit that delivers the power to the batteries is some how damaged. At any rate they have been running on batteries, and waiting for more to be delivered. Apparently it isn’t so easy to move things around in Japan. Obviously, though, this would be a priority.