NuScale Power (SMR) said Wednesday that Paragon, a Mirion Technologies unit, won a contract to finalize the design of Paragon's Highly Integrated Protection System for the NuScale Power Module small modular reactor.

Under the contract, Paragon will handle engineering and design work for three protection systems and provide verification and validation of safety-critical software.

Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.

NuScale said the award is a milestone, noting that certain components of 12 power modules are in production and that plants deploying the modules are expected to use a single control room to operate up to 12 units generating up to 77 megawatts each.