mobile electricity supplies have arrived at the site

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The main crisis unfolded at the Daiichi plant, which was operating in an emergency, battery-powered cooling mode nearly 20 hours after the earthquake knocked out its two main sources of the electrical power needed for safe shutdown. But the International Atomic Energy Agency said that "mobile electricity supplies have arrived at the site” to keep the crisis at the crippled plant from worsening.

Japan Expands Evacuation Around Nuclear Plant
By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: March 11, 2011

Japanese officials early Saturday expanded the area around a crippled nuclear power plant subject to emergency evacuation, as radiation levels inside the facility were reported to have surged and operators struggled to keep the plant’s cooling system operating on battery power.

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Prime Minister Naoto Kan said before boarding a helicopter to visit the plant that the government had expanded the evacuation area around the plant to a six-mile radius from a two-mile radius.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/world/asia/12nuclear.html?hp