He must escape from a CERN/DARPA-like facility
This story is meant to be an introduction and a background for a short videogame I'm working in
The facility is actually hidden. The secret is kept among every staff member working there. The involved parties are mostly scientific staff and engineers, but also military staff from countries like USA, EU members, and some asian and pacific countries (Say: NZ, Japan, South Korea - basically, if your country signed stuff like the TPP, your country is in).
The main motivation in that place is warfare / defense, and so research and development is oriented to build weapons or technologies useful in (conventional) war, quantum computing, chemical war & biotechnology, nanotechnology, space exploration, and new energy alternatives (this involves deeply studying quantum mechanics and even further research about the possibility of seizing zero-point energy).
Technologies there are not meant to have an immediate use, but since Al Qaeda / ISIS have managed to survive and increase their influence, they are preparing themselves for the worst, seriously (yep; drones do not seem to be useful now).
The mainly under development technology was called Time Wheel, which was named after <PERSON> work about american shamanism. The "device" is a predictor which would produce highly precise information of possible outcomes for action courses taken, but at a macroscopical level, and so the study of quantum coherence and superposition is taking place in a level never reached before. The actual technology involved and experiment mechanics are kept as confidential (even for the main game character, which never trusted these reckless political-influenced initiatives).
Our hero was worried since he knew about new actions taken by the whole facility:
* Security and rescue-trained staff was being hired by dozens.
* Many agreements were dispatched to most staff members, including agreements regarding:
+ Civic rights restrictions
+ Right to access health care outside the facility for a period of five years (even private medical services was restricted).
+ Refuse-to-demand
+ Accepting new job terms involving it became non-healthy in nature, independently of their charges.
* Legal documents reinforcing (actually: warning) about state matters, confidential nature of activities, and severe punishments as penalties were also dispatched to everyone.
However, in a huge facility, secrets can be reached easier than by Wikileaks, and that was the case about the experiment.
The facility is geographically isolated, and our main character, as most of the staff, has a temporary residence there in which they spend (they use to rotate, or be able to take huge holydays periods to go back to the civilization). He is incommunicated, except for authorized phone calls by wire phone calls (perhaps they are being eavesdropped by security staff). Forget about free-access internet, or using ports 9150 and 1050 for Tor network. 159
Even skeptic about the safety of his own life, he knew about the Time Wheel experiment few days ago, by a leak/gossip in other staff members. He was unable to leave the place, and could not allow other staff members know he knew about the project, since it was, say, illegal, and perhaps he'd be jailed (or even killed without reaching trial).
With this context, the only thing he could do was:
* Cage himself in a lead out-covered <PERSON>-caged room until the experiment finishes. The faraday caged room is conveniently located in the furthest side (from that experiment's room) in the facility. Rooms like that can be found by dozens in the facility, and he deliberately picked the furthest (even abandoned but with still working relatively old machinery in the area).
* Pray for the experiment not go bad, even given the whole bunch of warnings.
* Pray for the experiment, being radioactive, does not pass the lead layer in the room.
* Pray for the experiment, going bad, does not become catastrophic, destroy the facility (including his caged room), the environment, or even the world.
The experiment goes terribly bad. Most of the people died and/or disappeared. He is one of few members who survives, and seriously doubts the caged room had anything to do with that. The motivation of the character is to escape the huge facility before he runs with the same fate. The game ends when our hero gets off the facility safely.
How feasible is to pretend to keep the experiment as a secret even for a big part of the staff, and then somehow someone being able to leak that information inside the facility?
Additionally, regarding to confidentiality:
Since he is not supposed to know about the experiment: Is it feasible and consistent in these way that the only solution he found was to stay in the facility, as protected as he could? (I need the character feel forced to stay there, so I need good reasons). 999