SCP-2020
Euclid-exsequi
~
medium confidence
SCP-2020
Expected annual
$1.9M
One-time setup
$2.6M
Annual recurring
$1.9M
Personnel
12
Initial startup and contingency funding dominate one-time costs (~$2.6M), while recurring annual operations (security, core research staff, monitoring, consumables, overhead) run ~ $1.85M/yr; major-cost drivers are staff wages, contingency/reserve allocations, and episodic national-lab campaigns.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $2.6M
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $1.9M/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$1.9M/yr
Normal uneventful year with scheduled research, monitoring, routine transfers and no major incidents.
no breaches
scheduled experiments only
no major legal exposures
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Minor Incident
$2.0M/yr
Small containment incident or equipment failure requiring overtime, repairs, temporary relocation of samples and limited remediation.
localized containment breach
equipment failure requiring replacement
minor contamination event
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Major Breach
$3.1M/yr
Significant containment breach or exposure event requiring large-scale emergency response, legal/cover operations, and potential public containment actions.
full escape or public exposure
multi-site emergency response
major litigation/cover-up operations
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Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up
$2.5M/yr
Opportunity or need for a large national-lab campaign / synchrotron time and major destructive testing requiring expanded funding for that year.
need for synchrotron/national-lab time
large destructive test campaign
external collaboration scale-up
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Political Exposure
$2.6M/yr
Discovery or partial exposure to external parties requiring extensive legal, liaison, cover-up, and political mitigation costs.
unauthorized disclosure
media or governmental inquiry
whistleblower/legal action
Personnel
12 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Security Officer / MTF Agent | 6 | [#4] Minimum 2 guards per shift × 3 shifts = 6 FTE security staff (higher-clearance pay). |
| Research Scientist (PI) | 1 | [#6] Senior researcher / principal investigator. |
| Research Scientist / Postdoc / Senior Tech | 1 | [#6] Postdoc or senior technical researcher supporting experiments. |
| Lab Technician | 2 | [#6] Two lab technicians for daily experiments and sample handling. |
| Transcription / Human Reviewer | 1 | [#5] 0.5 FTE human reviewer for ASR verification (counted as 1 headcount, part-time). |
| Psychologist / Behaviorist | 1 | [#15] Part-time psychologist/behaviorist (0.2–0.5 FTE represented as one part-time headcount). |
Confidence Notes
Analyst notes are detailed with ranges for most line items, allowing reasonable mid-point estimates; uncertainty remains due to ranges, episodic national-lab costs, and contingencies for catastrophic scenarios.