That should, in theory, allow them to restart the pumps that supply cooling water both to the reactors and to the spent fuel ponds.
Restoring power should enable engineers to restart the pumps which send coolant over the reactor.
Restarting the pumps can be done only manually, but the threat of Qaddafi fighters' continuing presence is keeping crews away.
0907: Despite encouraging reports about progressing reconnecting power to cooling systems at the Fukushima plant, the BBC's Tim Willcox cautions that they are still nowhere near the process of restarting the pumps as it is unclear whether - given quake and tsunami damage - they even still work.
Now, perhaps the best hope may be the completion of a new power line, which would bring much-needed electricity from power plants outside the area to restart the electric pumps to cool down the reactors.
A few hours later, the alarms blared again when flight controllers tried to restart the stalled coolant pump.
The new draft report also found that in some cases, pipeline companies' procedures might have allowed alarms to be ignored by controllers, or prompted workers to restart the pipeline's pumps, which ultimately made spills worse.
In a statement, Nasa said: "Following two spacewalks to replace a degraded pump module on the truss, or backbone, of the International Space Station, flight controllers in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston successfully restarted the new pump Tuesday night".
Why not stop our vehicles 50 to 100 feet from the pump, push it to the pump, refuel, and push it 50 to 100 feet from the pump, only then restart the vehicle and drive away?
