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Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American laboratory technician and labor union activist known for reporting concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility. She worked at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Crescent, Oklahoma, making plutonium pellets. She ...
Her activism and November 1974 death were the subject of the 1983 film Silkwood. In a civil suit against Kerr-McGee by the Estate of Karen Silkwood, Judge Frank Theis told the jury, "If you find that the damage to the person or property of Karen Silkwood resulted from the operation of this plant, Kerr-McGee is liable." [15]
The official story was that Karen Silkwood died in a one-car crash on Nov. 13, 1974. ... But, in the early '70s, Kerr-McGee was a giant in Oklahoma and in America’s oil and gas industry. So, for ...
Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher.The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was adapted from the book Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Rolling Stone writer and activist Howard Kohn, which detailed the life of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear whistle-blower and a labor union activist who investigated alleged ...
Karen Silkwood was an employee at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant near Crescent, Oklahoma. Silkwood was a laboratory-technician-turned activist who tried to expose safety issues ongoing at the plant ...
Sherri Lou "Dusty" Ellis (October 13, 1953 – November 2, 2012) was an American woman known for her involvement in the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant criminal case of the 1970s when she and her roommate Karen Silkwood became activists and nuclear whistleblowers after both of their bodies tested positive for plutonium contamination.
Karen Silkwood was employed by Kerr-McGee's Cimarron facility when she died in a mysterious car crash on November 13, 1974. At the time, she was engaged in whistleblowing activities to expose what she and the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union believed were unsafe practices and falsification of records at the facility.
On November 5, 1974, Kerr-McGee worker and labor union activist Karen Silkwood found herself exposed to plutonium-239 after working to grind and polish plutonium pellets by way of a glovebox to be used in nuclear fuel rods at the Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Oklahoma. Inspection of the gloves would yield no evidence of external leakage of ...