20 March 2013/08 Jumada l-Ula 1434/30 Esfand 1391/09 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

Tokyo Electric Power Company has found the cause of the power outage, which stopped cooling of spent fuel pools a few days ago.

In one of three high voltage distribution panels they found burn marks, along with a dead rat.  It’s very likely the rat touched the panel causing a short circuit, which could have led to another nuclear disaster.

A former inlaw of mine, in Texas, lost a home to a fire that was caused by a rat that got into a circuit breaker panel that was part of a recent room extension on the house.