But I guess safety measures like that are too inconvenient.
Even doing chemical processing in cities is safer since you're only risking the immediate area.
This is madness.
After all we can do lab experiences on Mars, why not at 200 miles (300km) ?
It's a really common practice. I live near a national nuclear research lab and they do that. I also grew up near an ICBM building and designing facility and when they needed to run tests they drive several hours out to the west desert to do things just to be safe.
It's not that uncommon or inconvenient, and makes a hell of a lot more sense then just slapping it in the middle of a major metro area.
Seriously we've got tons of land out west that is about a million miles from everything let's use some of that.
Heck just require decontamination as you leave the lab and as you get off the bus, two times makes it more safe, and I'd imagine a 40 minute bus ride through the sweltering west desert heat in direct isn't an environment that microorganisms my flourish in.
Plus that's easy to do to if there is a quarantine period, out people on shifts of 5-7 days on site, one week off. That's what they do for the oil rigs, plenty of people live like that, it isn't easy, or cheap for the company but a global pandemic that locked down countries shattered supply chains and wreaked havoc with the global economy was a hell of a lot more expensive.
Exactly.
"have appropriate disinfectant/decontamination guidelines."
Yeah... it seems there have been some issues with people consistently following them. At least with the quarantine you have some defense in depth in case the procedures in the lab failed. (I think a woman in Fance died doing prion research. Why? Because she violated multiple protocols. I want to say she didn't even report it at first, but I could be wrong. And this isnt even a true infectious disease)