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SCP-3284 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-3284
Expected annual
$3.8M
One-time setup
$13.3M
Annual recurring
$3.5M
Personnel
20
One-time capital and contingency reserves dominate costs (approx. $13.2M one-time), while annual operations, staffing, R&D and contingencies drive recurring costs (~$3.47M/year), primarily security and research salaries and consumables.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $13.3M
Catastrophic Breach Reserve $10.0M
[#20] One-time catastrophic breach contingency insurance / reserve to fund site-level recovery or relocation.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M
[#9, #16] Experimental containment capital equipment (machine shop, vacuum/cryogenic systems) and secure archive/upgrade one-time costs.
Legal Cover Reserve $1.0M
[#15] One-time contingency reserve for legal/cover-story/public-relations contingency fund (established reserve).
Facilities $850K
[#12, #13] Containment chamber hardening (structural/electrical redundancy) and emergency evacuation/readiness establishment (one-time infrastructure/planning).
Equipment $335K
[#2, #6] High-fidelity monitoring/sensor suite initial purchase and specialized retrieval equipment (robotics/drones) initial purchase.
Evacuation Infrastructure $50K
[#13] One-time emergency evacuation & quarantine readiness establishment (shelters/procedures/infrastructure).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.5M/yr
Staff Wages $2.2M/yr
[#4, #8] Salaries and ongoing staffing costs for rapid recontainment/security team and experimental containment R&D team (salaries, hazard pay, technicians).
Opportunity Cost $300K/yr
[#18] Estimated lost facility time and research/productivity due to dedicated chamber and bonded staff time.
Supplies And Consumables $255K/yr
[#6, #7, #10] Recurring repairs for retrieval/robotic equipment (item #6 repair line), robotic spare parts/maintenance, and consumables/materials used in containment trials.
Facilities Maintenance $178K/yr
[#1, #11, #13] Ongoing chamber overhead (utilities/space allocation), damage & repair budget for cascade failures, and recurring drills/readiness costs.
Insurance And Workers Comp $150K/yr
[#22] Higher insurance premiums, workers' comp and potential settlements related to hazardous experiments and D-Class usage.
Public Safety And Indemnity $100K/yr
[#19] Covert liaison/indemnity/anonymous hospital payments and indemnities to local services in case of incidents.
D Class Management $90K/yr
[#5] Recurring costs to house, supervise, medically check, rotate and administratively manage D-Class used for recontainment shifts.
Medical And Psychological Care $60K/yr
[#14] Medical treatment and ongoing mental-health support for staff and D-Class exposed to high-stress containment duties.
Administrative Overhead $60K/yr
[#21] Administrative overhead for O5/senior review, secure briefings, and classified proposal processing.
Research And Monitoring $31K/yr
[#3, #16] Monitoring & sensor maintenance plus data storage and secure documentation/archive maintenance.
Logistics And Transport $25K/yr
[#17] Transport & convoys for occasional moves between sites (planning, vehicles, escorts) estimated as an annual expected cost.
Cover Story And Legal $20K/yr
[#15] Ongoing legal retainers / small cover-story/public-relations retainers and associated recurring legal work.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.5M/yr
70.0% probability / year
Uneventful year with normal monitoring, scheduled R&D activity, routine maintenance and no major incidents.
routine_testing no_major_breaches scheduled_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $3.7M/yr
25.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Localized breach or cascade failure causing moderate equipment/structural repairs, overtime, limited medical treatment and minor legal/PR work.
localized_cascade_failure limited_staff_injury small_repair_and_overtime
🚨 Major Breach $8.5M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Significant facility-level cascade requiring major repairs, extended shutdown/relocation efforts, large legal/cover operations and drawing from contingency funds.
facility_level_cascade extensive_equipment_loss major_public_exposure
👥 Personnel 20 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [#4] 24/7 rapid recontainment/security team (midpoint of 8–16 personnel assigned on-site for response and containment oversight).
Research Scientist 3 [#8, #9] Senior researchers/PI and senior containment researchers responsible for experimental design and oversight (part of R&D staffing).
Research Technician / Lab Tech 4 [#8, #10] Technicians and test techs supporting containment experiments, machining, prototypes and consumables handling.
Class-D Personnel 1 [#5] On-duty D-Class assigned to guard/recontain shifts (rotational; headcount reflects on-duty count at any given time and associated recurring housing/administration costs).
📋 Confidence Notes
Reasonable detail in analyst notes allows a medium-confidence estimate, but wide ranges for many line items (especially contingencies and potential catastrophic losses) create significant uncertainty.
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