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Karen Silkwood Knew Plenty About The Nuclear Industry, Her Story Is As Terrifying As A Meltdown…
Like most people in her Oklahoma home town, Karen Silkwood worked in a facility that produced highly radioactive plutonium. The plant balanced profits against worker safety, and Karen herself participated in this charade of economic survival…until the inevitable happened to her. Exposed to a lethal dose of plutonium poisoning, Karen faced the indifference and denial of her company.
Too spirited to be silenced, she voiced her protests and became a threat to her company…to an entire industry and the government agencies that monitored it. One day she left to meet with a reporter, intending to blow the whistle on the dangerous practices of her plant. But due to a mysterious car crash, she never got there. Was her death accidental, or was she murdered by powers as potentially lethal as the atom?
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