Contaminated: The Karen Silkwood Story

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Documentary about the death of nuclear plant worker Karen Silkwood in 1974. Silkwood died in a car accident on the way to meet with a journalist, to give him documents supporting her charge that workers at the Kerr-McGee nuclear power plant were being contaminated and that forty pounds of plutonium were missing.Was her death truly an accident? Why were the documents never recovered?
Documentary about the death of nuclear plant worker Karen Silkwood in 1974. Silkwood died in a car accident on the way to meet with a journalist, to give him documents supporting her charge that workers at the …
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Contaminated: The Karen Silkwood Story | Episode guide and videos - Yahoo! TVDocumentary about the death of nuclear plant worker Karen Silkwood in 1974. Silkwood died in a car accident on the way to meet with a journalist, to give him documents supporting her charge that workers at the Kerr-McGee nuclear power plant were being contaminated and that forty pounds of plutonium were missing.Was her death truly an accident? Why were the documents never recovered?