Design for Cost Methodology Applied to High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is like a Toyota Corolla – an order of magnitude cheaper than competitor’s “high performance” rocket systems, the Ferraris, but achieving the same basic transport requirements with greater reliability and safety. Before Falcon, space launch was a Ferrari-like industry, with handmad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Venneri, Lorenzo
Other Authors: Shirvan, Koroush
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152723