Authorities in Japan say an outage at Fukushima power station may have been caused by a rat.

Investigators at the nuclear plant believe the rodent may have been to blame for short-circuiting a switchboard, triggering a power cut. It took engineers over 30 hours to repair the damage.

They said they found burn marks inside the device and a 15cm animal nearby.

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