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March 22, 2013
Rat may have triggered Fukushima power outage
TOKYO (AP) — This week's power outage at Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear plant may have been caused by a rat.
Masayuki Ono, spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that runs the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, says a 6-inch rat was found dead Wednesday near a switchboard. He says the rat may be linked to the power failure, but that more investigation is needed to be sure.
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