creator Chen, Xuan advisor Wu, Benxin High initial cost is one of the major barriers for the nuclear power industry. Small modular reactors (SMR) may be a solution to this problem because they have a much smaller financial barrier. In this thesis, parametric cost estimation modeling studies have been performed for the SMR integrated reactor vessel (IRV) under a factory environment. Based on different prior fabrication experiences, three scenarios have been studied, and the corresponding possible manufacturing costs of the entire IRV and its subcomponents have been estimated. To explore the cost allocation, the total cost has been divided into five cost contributors: labor, material, tooling labor, tooling replacement, and other. The results have been analyzed and discussed. Submitted by Liana Khananashvili (khananashvili@iit.edu) on 2014-05-01T19:13:57Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Thesis_Xuan Chen.pdf: 620491 bytes, checksum: 7cf4e8107f941eb6d1a4420e4c73ae59 (MD5) Title page.pdf: 9674 bytes, checksum: 2117325a0fbcadf54eb01d78f14cc21a (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-01T19:13:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Thesis_Xuan Chen.pdf: 620491 bytes, checksum: 7cf4e8107f941eb6d1a4420e4c73ae59 (MD5) Title page.pdf: 9674 bytes, checksum: 2117325a0fbcadf54eb01d78f14cc21a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12 M.S. in in Mechanical, Material and Aerospace Engineering, December 2013 2013 2013-12 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3202 en Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access MMAE / Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department