It should be understood that the workmen carry in food and whatever else cannot be found on site. There are no caterers, no beds where they are working- much of the buildings are destroyed. Perhaps mg will volunteer to bring in beds and tempura.

Even if food-bed provisions had been made in the reactor buildings, the pictures linked by Charley (and shown online by Japan Times, etc.), show that they probably were blasted by the hydrogen explosions.

Except for the first day, the firetruck(s) are not manned after positioning, but have a mobile supply tank attached which is serviced, as discussed (online diagram may have disappeared by now) somewhere above.

Undoubtedly post-mortems on the reactor complex will show that design was faulty, and operator and government agency could have done more to prevent the destruction, but now that is hindsight.

Should people have been permitted to settle, farm, or have businesses in the fertile, lowlands of Tohoku? Some 20,000 dead. Very little recrimination about this aspect of the disaster.