Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical 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 Oklahoma, making plutonium pellets, and became the first woman on the union's negotiating team. After testifying to the Atomic Energy Commission about her concerns, she was found to have plutonium contamination on her body and in her home. While driving to meet with a New York Times journalist and an official of her union's national office, she died in a car crash, the circumstances of which were never explained entirely.
Her family sued Kerr-McGee for the plutonium contamination. The company settled out of court for US$1.38 million, while not admitting liability. Her story was chronicled in Mike Nichols's 1983 Academy Award nominated movie Silkwood in which she was portrayed by Meryl Streep.
Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for reporting concerns about...
the book Who Killed KarenSilkwood? by Rolling Stone writer and activist Howard Kohn, which detailed the life of KarenSilkwood, a nuclear whistle-blower...
plutonium plant criminal case of the 1970s when she and her roommate KarenSilkwood became activists and nuclear whistleblowers after both of their bodies...
such as Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, the Ed Cantrell murder case, the KarenSilkwood case, and the defense of Geoffrey Fieger. He also defended Brandon Mayfield...
Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation; radiological contamination and death of KarenSilkwood (an employee); and Kerr-McGee's quality assurance practices. The investigating...
latter. Streep portrayed the real-life character of KarenSilkwood in Mike Nichols' drama Silkwood (1983), before starring in her most financially successful...
death. On November 5, 1974, Kerr-McGee worker and labor union activist KarenSilkwood found herself exposed to plutonium-239 after working to grind and polish...
the critically hailed drama Silkwood (1983) directed by Mike Nichols, inspired by the true-life story of KarenSilkwood, in which her character was a...
of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, was a mentor to KarenSilkwood, a union activist in Oklahoma; and a co-founder of the Labor Party....
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learned about forming anti-nuclear organizations. At about the same time, KarenSilkwood, a nuclear plant worker, was killed in a car accident while investigating...
is unknown for sure what the exact circumstances of the death are. KarenSilkwood (28), a nuclear power whistleblower, died in a car accident on 13 November...
also known for writing a series of articles about labor union activist KarenSilkwood, who mysteriously died while en route to meet Burnham to share evidence...
a philosophical drama about nuclear war Silkwood (1983) – inspired by the true-life story of KarenSilkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while...
111 women were arrested on one particular day and gave their names as KarenSilkwood, an American nuclear worker who died after campaigning for nuclear safety...
while Silkwood's boyfriend Drew Stephens expressed approval in that Streep had played Karen as a human being rather than a myth, despite Karen's father...
by Paulist Press in 1975. He followed the widespread publicity about KarenSilkwood, her death, and the suit which her family brought against her former...
in 1983 with the film Silkwood, starring Meryl Streep, Cher and Kurt Russell, based on the life of whistleblower KarenSilkwood. The film was a financial...
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was investigating nuclear safety. Srouji, writing a book critical of KarenSilkwood, had perused more than 1000 pages of FBI documents about the nuclear...
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