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This Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) decision represents a signifi cant milestone for two new nuclear units at V. C. Summer China in the technological development of Station in Jenkinsville, South Carolina. AREVA announced the arrival in ATMEA 1, a new world-class model of “Receiving approval of our licenses China, at the beginning of April, 2012, 1,100 MWe nuclear power reactor. to construct and operate units 2 and 3 at of the fi rst two steam generators and However, JAEC also decided V.C.