Agence France-Presse: Suspected faulty fuel rods at an ageing German nuclear power station prompted its Swedish operator to announce further checks on Thursday only days after a short circuit forced an emergency shutdown. All 80,000 rods at the Kruemmel plant will be examined from Friday because “it looks as if one or several of the rods in the reactor is defective,” said Ernst Michael Zuefle, head of operator Vattenfall’s nuclear arm. Kruemmel, one of the oldest of Germany’s 17 nuclear power …