1. Braidwood Prototype Test
June, 2004
Braidwood Collaboration meeting,
May 13, 2005.
Surface Facility Rerquirements
Definition of Scope; Discovery
Definition of Methods
Deliverables
Project Definition Plan
Establish Requirements
Rough Cost & Schedule
Value Engineering Phase
Critical Review of CDR
Expert Consultation
Belding Walbridge
Hilton
Conceptual Design Report
Reasonable Cost & Schedule
Ray Stefanski
Fermilab
Braidwood Collaboration Meeting
May 13, 2005

2. Braidwood Collaboration Meeting
Why Ray is Anal Compulsive??
What does it cost to build a magnetic horn?
Ans: $~500K Larry might answer. This might show up in a proposal cost estimate.
Better: Cost to install a horn into a beam is about $5 M. Contingency can’t cover this.
Braidwood Collaboration Meeting
May 13, 2005

3. “Baseline” Cost and Schedule Estimates
“Baseline” Cost Estimate:
Civil Costs: (From Hilton and Assoc. consulting firm)
Const.+EDIA $34M
Contingency $8.5M
Detector and Veto System (From Bartoszek Eng. and Argonne)
Four Detectors $17M with Veto systems
Contingency $5M
Other with cont. $1M
Schedule:
2004: R&D proposal submission.
2005: Full proposal submission
2007: Project approval; start const.
2009: Start data collection
Please, these are not baseline numbers.
Can we say that the costs are based on
our current best working mode?
A baseline is not required until we apply
For CD1. We haven’t yet received CD0.
There has been little value engineering applied to these cost estimates Likely cost savings in developing an integrated plan for shafts, detectors,and access.
Results of bore holes and geology studies reduces the needed contingency
Project also lends itself to operational phasing with near and far shafts and multiple detectors

4. Baseline, as a term used in Project management:
A baseline is an approved configuration item, e.g. a project plan that has
been signed off for execution.
Definition of the term baseline in DOE 4133.
c. Baseline and Change Control Levels.
The project baseline consists of cost, schedule, and scope as stated
on the Project Data Sheet (PDS), the project baseline summary, or
similar documents.
A baseline range is established at CD-1, Approve Preliminary Baseline Range,
for tracking purposes.
A performance baseline, against which project performance will be
measured, is established at CD-2, Approve Performance Baseline.
(See Chapters 1 and 2 for more information on CDs.)
Baseball: Changing the baseline
Changes the game!

5. Joel Butler’s P5 Presentation
$60 M in labor!!

6. Dear Ray et al.,
After the discussion about moving costs versus building costs at the end of the phone conference last week, I checked with Vic about the context of the conclusion in the June detector design document.  Ray correctly pointed out that it says "...size limits transportation so that a majority of the construction have to occur on site which will require
fixturing and added cost." 
Vic tells me that this conclusion was based on transportation costs that were estimated from
very rough estimates.  But these included both surface options and helicopter options.  These
costs were considered large compared to the quotes for near and far detector buildings of
$300K each.  They would not necessarily be large compared to $15M. 
This issue is obviously separate from the issue of a crane, which was estimated at $1.4M in the
June document and is presumably included in the $15M.
Ray, if I remember correctly, you mentioned the minutes of some meeting where the $15M estimate was discussed.  Is that correct? Thanks Maury

7. Braidwood “Baseline” Current Working Model
Design Goals: Flexibility, Redundancy, and Cross Checks
Four identical 65 ton detectors
Outside Radius = 3.5 m
Fid. Radius = 2.6 m
Two zones (Inner: Gd Scint, Outer: Pure oil)
Good access for calibrations
Increased fiducial mass
Redundant detectors at each site
Cross checks and flexibility
Moveable detectors
Allows direct cross calibration at near site
Flat overburden at 450 mwe depth
Equivalent to 580 mwe mountain
5 Hz muon rate in 6.5 m radius
Deep near detector allows access to unique additional physics (Janet’s talk)
Optimized to use both rate and shape analysis
Mitigate Correlated Background with extensive, active veto system
Fast neutrons from muons
9Li and 8He produced from muon
Braidwood Strategy: Identify and veto the few shower producing muons which produce the neutrons and spallation products
Veto Detectors p n m
6 meters
Shielding

8. Braidwood Reactor Experiment

9. Staging & Assembly Area
Braidwood
Reactors
Connecting rail
Far Site
Near Site

10. Detector Assembly Schedule
The bits & pieces:
Oil, Gd, scintillator, storage & mixing tanks
acrylic sphere, glue, curing methods
steel tank (stainless?)
detector base with Thompson bearings.
PMTs, mounting fixtures, power supplies,
readout cables
DAQ
Computing Facilities
Assembly Sequence
In parallel as much as possible.
1. Build lower portion of tank
2. Install PMTs in lower tank
3. Build upper section of tank
4. Build acrylic sphere
5. Place acrylic sphere into
lower tank
6. Install PMTs in upper tank
7. Stick the upper tank onto the
8. In situ PMT tests
9. Fill detector with oil, etc.
10. Test PMTs again
11. Send detector to hole.
Veto Counters ??
Unknown!!

11. Rough Sketch of Staging and Assembly Area
If we give up the ability to build detectors in parallel,
we can reduce the size of the assembly building.
PMT staging
& test
Acrylic Tank Assembly
Outer Shell
Assembly Area
PMT
Installation
 Off to shaft
Final Assembly Area
Oil StorageArea
Welding the tank together
can be done outdoors on a
hardstand.

12. Near Shaft Head House (area 1664 sf) $425/sf 708,838 Building Shell
The building shell cost is similar comparing Maury and FESS.
FESS also assumes
An emergency generator
Humidity Control for the Cavern. (based on Numi/Minos experience.)
Fire detection and Protection
Near Shaft Head House (area 1664 sf) $425/sf
708,838
Building Shell
355,712
Mechanical
137,174
Fire Protection
36,648
Electrical
127,656
Fire Detection
51,648

13. We may need decommissioning costs in FESS estimates.
Surface costs may be duplicated in the FESS and Hilton estimates
We may need decommissioning costs in FESS estimates.
Site Preparation includes $1,400,000 in
road upgrade that probably isn’t needed.

14. We’re entering a value engineering phase. We’ll eliminate the things
that are now obvious we don’t need. We’ll add in the stuff we have
not yet considered.
Belding Walbridge should clear up questions of conveyance.
airlifts
over-road transport from nearby facility
onsite conveyance on a flatbed
bad roads may need minimal upgrade to handle 150 T loads.
2. Eliminate double counting and disagreement between Hilton and FESS
we need dimensions used by Hilton.
elevator cabins may be too small.
reconcile occupancy requirements
3. Add methodology for fabrication, assembly, and installation of veto counters.
what will they look like.

15. RFP in draft form prepared for Belding Walbridge.
. There will be four detectors in total.
Each detector:
1. will assembled at the surface,
2. must be movable,
3. will be calibrated at the near shaft location before
deployment to the far shaft location, and
4. will be filled just once and always move fully filled with oil.
The scope of work shall include the following:
Brainstorming of initial schemes for the movement of the detectors in three distinct translations;
horizontal movement along the surface from fabrication building to shafts
(approx. 1,000 feet) and between each shaft (approx. 4,800 feet).
b. Vertical movement of the detectors up and down the shaft (approx. 600 feet),
c. Horizontal movement below grade (from 75 feet to 220 feet) at 90 degree angles.
b. Feasibility analysis of the movement of a completed detector from ANL or FNAL to the
Braidwood site. The analysis should consider possible means of moving
including truck, barge or airlift.
c. Analysis of expected g-loading during the moving process.

16. Engineering/R&D Proposal (Submitted to NSF and DOE)
What we may have left out:
Tank vibration studies.
Put a liquid filled tank on a
truck and monitor signal output.
Build a small proto-detector and
test reconstruction algorithms.
Requests funding to complete the design and engineering of the baseline project.
Civil engineering design leading to RFP for a “Design and Build”
Detector engineering leading to full “Design Report”
Final development of stable Gd loaded scintillator
Amount requested
Civil Engineering $525k
Detector Engineering $408k
Liquid Scint. $28k
Edu. and Outreach $78k
Another way of looking at the costs:
Project Management $257 K
2004 R&D Proposal $782 K
EDIA, OH&P, Contingency $1,564K

17. Things to consider:
Accelerator based experiments are very expensive. >$100M/yr
Reactor experiments get the beam at no cost.
Braidwood is a US program that will be the best experiment of
its kind in the world.
Summary:
The detector design will not be complete until we have resolved
the methods for their construction and installation. We need to model
the entire sequence of events for building the detectors - from
procurement to commissioning, in order to comfortably predict
budget and schedule requirements.
The veto counters are a concern, because they represent an unkown –
they could have an unpredictable impact on our ability to build
Braidwood.