ABC Audio's new podcast series reexamines the mysterious death of the whistleblower Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker who died in a fatal 1974 crash.
and Silkwood's story gained significant attention in 1983 with the release of "Silkwood," a movie based on her life. In a performance that earned her an Oscar nomination, Meryl Streep portrayed ...
It was 49 years ago when a nuclear fuel production facility near Crescent, made famous by the movie "Silkwood," shut down. To this day, records from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission show that ...
Silkwood is based on the true story of one of ... it’s here Karen becomes the hero of the movie, and its soul, and ultimate sacrifice for speaking truth to American corruption and its failure ...
She was going to try to blow the whistle on nuclear safety, but never made it. Fifty years after the crash that killed Karen Silkwood on a dark stretch of Oklahoma's Highway 74, a rekindled effort ...