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The Fukushima Dai-ichi completed a similar building at a slightly elevated area on the complex just a year before the disasters
-- though it was meant for quakes. It was the key crisis management center after surviving the March 11, 2011, tsunami that washed into the plant, destroying the plant's power and cooling systems, causing three reactor cores to melt. Plant officials have said the building was key to their survival. None of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors are equipped with filtered vents, although their operators are moving to install them in coming years. "The operators are expected to take initiative to improve safety and reliability, and never dwell on the safety myth," Edano told Yagi, urging the utility to expedite the process. The startup guidelines are based on recommendations adopted last month by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. The most crucial measures to secure cooling functions and prevent meltdowns as in Fukushima were incorporated in the government's guidelines, but the rest were not.
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