SCP-7177
Keter
~
medium confidence
SCP-7177
Expected annual
$5.5M
One-time setup
$8.1M
Annual recurring
$5.4M
Personnel
22
Initial one-time capital to retrofit containment, deploy robotics and sensors, and build quarantine/lab support is roughly $8.1M; recurring annual operations (staffing, maintenance, consumables, utilities, training, and overhead) are approximately $5.41M, driven mainly by personnel and research/monitoring.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $8.1M
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $5.4M/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$5.4M/yr
Normal year with routine operations, monitoring, and no major incidents.
no_incident
routine_maintenance
scheduled_research
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Minor Incident
$5.6M/yr
Small containment-related incident (equipment damage, localized contamination) requiring repairs, overtime, and limited legal/cover actions.
equipment_failure
small_debris_influx
localized_contamination
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Major Breach
$7.9M/yr
Significant containment breach or loss of major equipment leading to extended remediation, replacement of systems, large legal exposure and public mitigation.
containment_breach
large_debris_influx
public_exposure
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Probe Campaign Year
$7.2M/yr
A year in which an authorized probe development/deployment campaign is executed to sample the connected space; large one-off R&D and mission costs incurred.
authorized_probe_campaign
major_research_push
Personnel
22 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Security Officer / MTF Agent | 12 | [#10] 24/7 guard rotations (3 shifts) as specified in staffing note; costed within staff_wages. |
| Research Scientist / Technical Staff | 10 | [#11] Resident astrophysicists, engineers, robotic operators, xenobiologists/materials scientists and technicians; aggregated into the research/technical team budget within staff_wages. |
Confidence Notes
Notes provide detailed line-item ranges for most costs, allowing reasonable estimates, but many wide ranges and scenario-dependent items (probe campaigns, contingencies, and site-condition variability) leave material uncertainty; hence medium confidence.