"I'm sitting in a power plant right now. Power plants don't use coolent other than water. It sounds like the Feed Water pumps aren't running at capacity because they are on battery power. The only way to cool the reactor is to get the feed water pumps running. Or some how put portable one on line but ive never heard of that being down before. comment by chunga at 3/11/2011 11:53:25 PM6:53 PM ..boric acid or boron infused water can be used as a coolant."
"The U.S. Military did not deliver water to the Japanese. Someone did not prepare Secretary Clinton to speak, and made her look foolish. The U.S. has delivered generators to the power plant to provide power to the COOLING PUMPS. That will aid in cooling the reactor."
This makes much more sense. Most major power plants, regardless of the fuel used, have black-start generators, usually packaged gas turbine units. Knock out the generator, feeders, switchgear or controls and you have a problem.