A blackout at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in
Japan left three fuel storage pools without fresh cooling water
for hours this week, the Associated Press reported, creating
fresh fear that a meltdown could occur.  Now the company that
runs the plant has announced they think they know what was
behind the potentially disastrous power cut — a dead rat.  Tokyo
Electric Power Company released this picture of the suspected
culprit today:  Rat Fukushima Japan   According to The New York
Times, the plant's operators found the rat when they looked
inside a faulty switchboard. It had burn marks on its body,
suggesting it may have gnawed on a cable. The BBC says the
animal was six inches long.  It was a worrying situation at the
plant, which had suffered a triple meltdown in 2011 after a
tsunami helped knock out cooling systems. Though the plant is
technically in a "cold shutdown" phase with teams working to
dismantle reactors, there were worries that a cooling-system
malfunction could result in a new meltdo