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SCP-7405 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-7405
Expected annual
$140K
One-time setup
$145K
Annual recurring
$136K
Personnel
1.36
One-time setup and retrofit costs (~$145k) driven by containment cell retrofit, sensors, and research contingency; annual recurring costs (~$136k/yr) dominated by staff wages, legal/cover-up contingency, and ongoing research/monitoring.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $145K
Facilities $35K
[#1, #5] Cell retrofit and HVAC/ambient-temperature upgrade (construction, ducting, redundancy)
Equipment $34K
[#2, #3, #4, #12, #15, #19] Chilled slab/refrigerated pedestal, thermal sensor/IR hardware, motion/CCTV hardware, safe test rig and sensors, cryo-cabinet, field recovery kit (hardware portions)
Research Contingency Addendum $30K
[#23] Contingency research fund for Addendum-03 / unplanned capital items
Amnestic And Coverup Initial $25K
[#17] Initial Class-A amnestic and cover-up costs for the documented recovery incident (~10 people assumed)
Initial Research And Lab Setup $15K
[#14] Initial analytical lab work contract costs (mass spec, sequencing, histology, etc.)
Reserve Fund For Damage $6K
[#22] One-time contingency/reserve for accidental damage from tests
Ppe And Signage $650
[#6] Initial prohibition signage, PPE, SOP printing and training cards
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $136K/yr
Staff Wages $72K/yr
[#7, #9, #10, #11] Cleaning labor (bi-weekly janitorial/bioclean team), security guard allocation, part-time containment researcher (0.25 FTE), containment technician hours
Cover Story And Legal $26K/yr
[#17, #18] Annual contingency for amnestic administration/compensation and legal/PR/coordination fees
Research And Monitoring $14K/yr
[#3, #12, #14, #15, #16, #20] Thermal sensor monitoring, apparatus maintenance/calibration, follow-up analytical assays, cryo-storage fees, annual drills and training, IT/logging for research
Administrative Overhead $10K/yr
[#24] Site-18 overhead allocation (utilities, baseline janitorial, security overhead share)
Facilities Maintenance $4K/yr
[#5] HVAC/ambient temperature control maintenance contract and redundancy upkeep
Supplies And Consumables $3K/yr
[#7, #8, #13, #6] Cleaning consumables and biohazard disposal, research consumables, PPE replacement/training materials
Ethics And Review $3K/yr
[#25] Opportunity cost / ethics committee and senior scientist review time for proposed tests
Logistics And Transport $2K/yr
[#19] Vehicle allocation and response time / fuel & maintenance for field recovery
Energy Usage $1K/yr
[#21] Incremental electricity for refrigeration slab, sensors, cameras, and climate control
Video Storage Maintenance $900/yr
[#4] Video storage, retrieval and CCTV maintenance/hosting
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $136K/yr
92.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine containment, cleaning, monitoring, and scheduled testing only.
no public incidents no major containment breach routine scheduled testing only
🚨 Minor Incident $156K/yr
5.0% probability / year +$20K vs baseline
Small public exposure or field recovery requiring limited amnestic deployment and extra legal/PR work.
local civilian sighting single-day field recovery administer Class-A amnestics to small group
🚨 Major Incident $236K/yr
1.0% probability / year +$100K vs baseline
Larger containment breach or multi-civilian exposure requiring extensive amnestic administration, recovery operations, equipment replacement and legal action.
containment breach multiple civilian exposures equipment damage or deeper investigation
🚨 Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up $196K/yr
2.0% probability / year +$60K vs baseline
Year with planned Addendum-03 scale-up tests requiring additional equipment, contracted assays, and expanded monitoring.
Addendum-driven experimental campaign procurement of specialized assays/equipment expanded on-site research teams
👥 Personnel 1.36 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 1 Dedicated guard allocation for the area (partial site allocation). [#9]
Research Scientist 0.25 Part-time containment researcher assigned (0.25 FTE). [#10]
Containment Technician 0.06 Technician hours for checks and experiment support (~100–150 hrs/yr). [#11]
Janitorial / Bioclean Team (FTE equivalent) 0.05 Bi-weekly cleaning labor aggregated as fractional FTE (104 staff-hours/yr). [#7]
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide itemized ranges for nearly all costs, enabling a reasoned bottom-up estimate, but many line items have wide ranges (amnestics, contingency funds, security allocation) and shared-site allocations introduce uncertainty.
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