in order to contain them. jim walsh joins me now along with michael freelander, a former senior operator at three nuclear power plants. michael, in terms of the latest developments, what is a positive development, what do you see as a negative development. the positive first? >> yeah, good morning, anderson. the fact that they've been able to get power into the power plant and get a distribution energized as we discussed last week, that is a positive development. and ultimately getting that power into the facility and into the necessary equipment, that's essential for getting us out of the woods on here. now, necessarily, as i've said before, this is over the next days and weeks, this is going to be two steps forward, one step back evolution. all the systems went into their safety mode and so restoring those plant systems to the normal configuration is going to be a bit of a tricky evolution