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| Fukushima: Rat linked to outage at Japan nuclear plant | Fukushima: Rat linked to outage at Japan nuclear plant |
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| A rat may have caused this week's power outage at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant, says the Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco). | A rat may have caused this week's power outage at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant, says the Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco). |
| The company suspects the rodent may have caused a short-circuit in a switchboard, triggering the power cut. | The company suspects the rodent may have caused a short-circuit in a switchboard, triggering the power cut. |
| "We have deeply worried the public, but the system has been restored," Tepco spokesman Masayuki Ono was quoted as saying by AFP news agency. | "We have deeply worried the public, but the system has been restored," Tepco spokesman Masayuki Ono was quoted as saying by AFP news agency. |
| Two years ago a quake-triggered tsunami caused meltdowns at the plant. | Two years ago a quake-triggered tsunami caused meltdowns at the plant. |
| The plant was brought under control in December 2011 and Monday's crisis was the first time since then that so many facilities had been affected by electrical failure at the same time. | |
| The system cooling water which contained spent nuclear fuel rods failed and it took engineers more than a day to repair the damage. | |
| Correspondents say the incident has highlighted the fragility of the rescue operation at Fukushima two years after the meltdowns caused a major release of radiation. | |
| The Japanese government insists that the reactors are in a "cold shutdown" state and no longer releasing high levels of radiation. | |
| But decommissioning the reactors is expected to take decades. |