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	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Silkwood's work was making plutonium pellets for nuclear reactor fuel rods, and she died under allegedly mysterious circumstances after investigating claims of irregularities and wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plant.
		Silkwood, her partner and housemate were sent to Los Alamos National Laboratory for in-depth testing to determine the extent of the contamination in their bodies.
		Silkwood herself asserted that she was the victim of a malicious campaign, and that the testing jars she had been given were laced with plutonium.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Karen_Silkwood (1429 words)

	Conference commemorates Karen Silkwood
		Karen Silkwood's life as an advocate for worker safety was celebrated on the Cornell campus April 26.
		Silkwood died in 1974 at the age of 28, after blowing the whistle on dangerous practices at a Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant in Oklahoma.
		Silkwood's union, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers, was the predecessor of PACE.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/00/5.4.00/Silkwood.html (598 words)

	FRONTLINE: nuclear reaction: karen silkwood
		Karen Silkwood died on November 13, 1974 in a fatal one-car crash.
		Silkwood had been working in a glovebox in the metallography laboratory where she was grinding and polishing plutonium pellets that would be used in fuel rods.
		Because Silkwood had been exposed to plutonium and had undergone in vivo plutonium measurements, her tissue was also used in the Los Alamos Tissue Analysis Program to determine her actual plutonium body burden, the distribution of the plutonium between different organs of her body, and the distribution within her lung.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interact/silkwood.html (2219 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Karen Silkwood - Campaigner - A634213
		Karen Gay Silkwood was born in Longview, Texas on 19 February, 1946, was raised in Nederland, Texas and attended Lamar State College in Beaumont, Texas.
		Karen Silkwood moved to Oklahoma and got a job as a metallography laboratory technician, grinding and polishing plutonium pellets for use in fuel rods, at the Cimarron plutonium plant operated by the Kerr-McGee Company in Crescent, Oklahoma.
		Karen Silkwood's supporters, attorneys and some private investigators contend that fresh dents and traces of rubber in the rear bumper and fender of her car shows that she was pushed or bumped off the road by a second car.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A634213 (2175 words)

	Karen Silkwood: Raw Deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Karen Silkwood was a laboratory analyst at the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant in central Oklahoma.
		Silkwood, outraged, took it upon herself to gather documentation proving as many of the abuses as she could, intending to give the evidence to a reporter from the New York Times.
		Silkwood was found dead inside her car, which had crashed on the way to her meeting with the Times reporter.
	www.blastbooks.com /RAWDEAL/Silkwood/fr2silk.htm (212 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Karen Silkwood
		Karen Silkwood (October 24, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was a labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plutonium fields near Crescent, Oklahoma.
		The 1983 film Silkwood is a fictional account of her life and story.
		Karen Silkwood was buried in Danville Cemetery, Kilgore, Texas.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Karen_Silkwood (409 words)

	Jiskha Homework Help - Social Studies: People: Karen Silkwood: The Plutonium Legacy
		Karen Gay Silkwood exposed herself to plutonium and overdosed on sleeping medication in order to frame the Kerr-McGee power plant and let their negligence be known.
		Karen had some of the best marks in her class and her teachers thought she could have a very successful in a career in science (Rashke 4-7).
		Karen did not quite understand the severity of these faulty photos, but she knew that something must be changed.
	www.jiskha.com /social_studies/people/silkwood_karen.html (3473 words)

	UE News: Remembering Karen Silkwood, Union Martyr
		Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr McGee Company’s Cimarron plutonium plant in Crescent, Okla., was a member of Local 5-283 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union.
		Silkwood was a victim of company harassment, like other union activists in the plant, but her problems didn’t end at the factory gate.
		Silkwood was bringing with her documents that proved her allegation that quality control of fuel rods had been compromised.
	www.ranknfile-ue.org /uen_0100_slkwd.html (1063 words)

	Silkwood - Synopsis - Moviefone
		Based on a true story, Silkwood begins and ends with Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) driving along a lonely road in 1974, heading to a meeting with a New York Times reporter to deliver evidence of negligence at the Kerr-McGee Plant in Cimarron, Oklahoma.
		Silkwood had been drinking and was under the influence of tranquilizers.
		Kerr-McGee was eventually forced to pay the Silkwood family an enormous settlement because of her contamination, but the full facts behind her convenient accident have never been revealed (though the filmmakers clearly indictate whom they hold responsible).
	movies.aol.com /movie/silkwood/19454/synopsis (261 words)

	© 2000 Karen Silkwood's grave
		Karen Silkwood is buried in Kilgore, Texas, approximately 20 miles east of Winona.
		Silkwood was a nuclear-plant worker at Kerr-McGee in Oklahoma.
		Silkwood testified to charges before the Atomic Energy Commission that she had suffered radiation exposure in a series of unexplained incidents.
	www.cep.unt.edu /foto/54.html (146 words)

	Karen Silkwood Biography - Biography.com
		Silkwood, a nuclear plant laborer who died while investigating safety violations made by her employer, is viewed as a martyr by anti-nuclear activists; in 1983, her story was made into a film, Silkwood.
		On the night of November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, a technician at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron River nuclear facility in Crescent, Oklahoma, was driving her white Honda to Oklahoma City.
		Silkwood was killed in the crash, and the manila folder was not found at the scene when Stephens arrived a few hours later.
	www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9542402 (562 words)

	Silkwood
		Silkwood tells the factually-based story of a 28-year-old employee at a nuclear processing plant in Oklahoma who died under mysterious circumstances, just as she was taking her biggest steps toward exposing the unsafety of her working conditions, the flagrant dishonesty of company policies, even the dark suggestion of corporate plotting against her own life.
		Karen Silkwood's trajectory begins in a compelling mixture of the quotidian and the dangerous, an atmosphere perfectly captured in the first group shots of jovial, unbeautiful Kerr-McGee employees who sift plutonium particles in a hermetically sealed "glovebox" while trading jokes, swapping shifts, popping bubble-gum, and taking the piss out of their boss.
		Karen is probably the most suggestive, complex portrayal of Streep's early career: she is capricious, observant, good-humored, diligent, ostentatious, self-deluding, sex-minded, possessed of limited experience but lucid imagination, and painfully sensitive to her own political awakening, almost to the point of feeling intimidated and terrorized by her own discoveries.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /silkwood.html (882 words)

	FILM: KAREN SILKWOOD'S STORY - New York Times
		TAKING many of the facts of the life of Karen Silkwood, the young laboratory worker and union activist who, in 1974, died in an automobile crash that some believe to have been murder, Mike Nichols has directed a precisely visualized, highly emotional melodrama that's going to raise a lot of hackles.
		We are drawn into the story of Karen Silkwood by the absolute accuracy and unexpected sweetness of its Middle American details and then, near the end, abandoned by a film whose images say one thing and whose final credit card another.
		This much about Karen Silkwood's life apparently is not in dispute: She was born in Texas, went through one year of college and had three children by a common-law husband, whom she left when she moved to Crescent, Okla., to work in Kerr-McGee's Cimarron Plutonium Recycling Facility there.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EFD61638F937A25751C1A965948260 (744 words)

	Silkwood (1983) - A Review by David Nusair
		Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) works at an Oklahoma nuclear facility, where she has a lot of friends and seems to be happy in her job.
		Silkwood's been co-written by Nora Ephron, which is really surprising when you consider the direction her career took years later (Mixed Nuts, anyone?) There's no cheesy sentiment to be found here; the film is virtually clinical in the way it presents both the characters and the situation.
		Silkwood, based on a true story, is not the kind of film that will appeal to everyone.
	www.reelfilm.com /silkwood.htm (559 words)

	Green Left - Issues: Karen Silkwood remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Karen Silkwood will be remembered as someone who fought an uphill and often unpopular battle against the ruthless nuclear industry.
		Silkwood discovered numerous violations of health regulations: exposure of workers to contamination, faulty respiratory equipment, plutonium samples stored in desk drawers and plutonium samples taken to local schools for show and tell.
		Silkwood was an experienced rally driver, yet tracks from the car indicated that it had gone for some distance on the grassed area to the side of the road.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2001/458/25546 (812 words)

	Dave McGurgan
		Silkwood was one of those people who stood up for herself and for the rights of others to work in a safe environment.
		After witnessing several co-workers' exposure to plutonium, then becoming exposed herself, Silkwood quickly became a pro-union activist who blasted the company for what she felt was a lack of plant safety.
		Before she was able to meet with the reporter, Silkwood suffered several unexplained exposures to plutonium and was fatally injured in a car accident, that many believe was no accident.
	www.davemcgurgan.com /2004/07/remembering-karen-silkwood-i-watched.html (270 words)

	Amazon.ca: Silkwood: Video: Mike Nichols,Meryl Streep,Kurt Russell,Cher,Craig T. Nelson,Diana Scarwid,Fred Ward,Ron ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Based on the harrowing account of whistle blower Karen Silkwood, this 1983 film directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Postcards from the Edge) is as much a character study of a woman galvanized by injustice as a story of the dangers of nuclear power and the extremes of corporate greed.
		When Karen discovers unsafe conditions and reckless protocol at the plant where she works, her actions in uncovering the dangers that lie at the plant not only cause a rift between her and her lover (Kurt Russell) and her best friend (Cher), but they threaten her very life.
		When they go to see Karen's children, living with their father and his new wife, it is SO depressing I could hardly watch; I cannot imagine living in such a place and under such conditions...I once went to a place in California called the City of Industry, and it reminded me of that.
	www.amazon.ca /Silkwood-Mike-Nichols/dp/630516424X (1730 words)

	Silkwood Finale: The Fuel Rods Are OK by Bruce Brown (from New York Times)
		From covering the first Silkwood civil trial as a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, I knew that Silkwood's serious nuclear safety allegations would only be tested when the fuel rods she was worried about -- especially fuel rod lots 16 and 17 -- were themselves tested through use.
		Miss Silkwood worked at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plant in Crescent, Okla. She was on her way to deliver documents to a reporter for The New York Times when she died in a crash, but no documents were recovered from her wrecked car.
		Miss Silkwood's original allegations, which were made to officials of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union shortly before her death on Nov. 13, 1974, centered on the quality of the welds in the stainless steel tubes containing the uranium-plutonium pellets mat power the reactor.
	www.astonisher.com /archives/silkwood.html (1590 words)

	Karen Silkwood Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Karen Silkwood (1946-1974), a nuclear plant laborer who died while investigating safety violations made by her employer, is viewed as a martyr by anti-nuclear activists.
		In a suit filed by Bill Silkwood on behalf of his grandchildren, a jury in May, 1979, awarded the Silkwood estate over ten million dollars in punitive damages and cleared Silkwood of the allegation that she had stolen plutonium from the plant.
		Silkwood's story was unveiled to a much greater audience in the 1983 film directed by Mike Nichols.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/karen-silkwood (1364 words)

	Karen Silkwood at AllExperts
		Karen Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was a labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near Crescent, Oklahoma.
		Silkwood's work was making plutonium pellets for reactor fuel rods.
		The coroner found 0.35 milligrams of methaqualone (Quaalude) per 100 milliliters of blood at the time of her death - an amount almost twice the recommended dosage for inducing drowsiness.[4] There was no firm evidence of foul play, and no glass or other debris was found, ruling out the hit-and-run theory.
	en.allexperts.com /e/k/ka/karen_silkwood.htm (1477 words)

	30th Anniversary of Karen Silkwood's killing : SF Indymedia
		That, in brief, is the story of Karen Silkwood, still remembered as a union martyr 25 years after her death.
		The Silkwood story became the basis for the movie Silkwood, starring Meryl Streep with Kurt Russell and Cher.
		Silkwood was a powerful movie, but the actual events surrounding the death of 28-year-old Karen Silkwood are even more riveting, and tragic, and far more complex.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1706086 (230 words)

	Meryl Streep: Silkwood - Movie
		It is also a noteworthy fact that the real life character of Karen Silkwood and her then boyfriend Drew Stephens (who served as a consultant during shooting of this film) have met up with Cher at backstage during one of her road shows in the 70's.
		Thus, what this movie does is attempt to piece together the life of Karen Gay Silkwood (born: 1946) up to the time of the tragedy that took her life in Nov. 1974.
		Silkwood is about Karen Silkwood who decides to publicise the danger that co-workers are exposed to at a plant she works.
	www.superiorpics.com /meryl_streep/movie/1983_silkwood.html (882 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Conspiracy?
		Karen Silkwood was killed on her way to meet a New York Times reporter.
		Rashke carries the reader though the early years of Silkwood's life, the months she spent at Kerr-McGee, the FBI and Senate hearings that followed her death, and ultimately the battle in federal court.
		Karen Silkwood was mentally competent, emotionally stable and awake on the November day when her white Honda slid across the road and crashed into a culvert.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=224040 (773 words)

	Silkwood (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear facility, left to meet with a reporter from the New York Times.
		The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
		All in all, Silkwood is a movie that doesn't suprise or open the eyes of all the conspiracy- conscious people that are alive in 2003, but it does provide a touching story about a town that was dealing with the prospect of having to choose between the risk of toxic infection and their livelihood.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0086312 (654 words)

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