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	FRONTLINE: nuclear reaction: karen silkwood
		During the week prior to her death, Silkwood was reportedly gathering evidence for the Union to support her claim that Kerr-McGee was negligent in maintaining plant safety, and at the same time, was involved in a number of unexplained exposures to plutonium.
		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)

	Silkwood (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Plot Outline: 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.
		Silkwood didn't find hope, but she did get scared, and angry, and put her job (and those of her colleagues) at stake to uncover dangerous practices before dying a mysterious death.
		'Silkwood' the movie doesn't give us the glib conclusions of a conspiracy thriller (it refrains from giving an opinion on her cause of death), but it does give an excellent portrait of life at the bottom, and the mounting sense of claustrophobia and paranoia that accompanied Karen's perilous voyage of discovery.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0086312 (464 words)

	Encyclopedia: 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.
		Streep in Silkwood (1983) Meryl Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an actress, who by the mid-1980s was regarded by many as the best actress of her day, and remains so.
		Karen Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was a labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plutonium fields near Crescent, Oklahoma.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Karen-Silkwood (916 words)

	Karen Silkwood: Raw Deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		No one was ever indicted for Silkwood's death, although in the weeks preceding it she had been mercilessly harassed by Kerr-McGee and local law enforcement officials.
	www.blastbooks.com /RAWDEAL/Silkwood/fr2silk.htm (212 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 v. KERR-McGEE CORP., 464 U.S. 238 (1984)
		Karen Silkwood was a laboratory analyst for Kerr-McGee at its Cimarron plant near Crescent, Okla. The plant fabricated plutonium fuel pins for use as reactor fuel in nuclear powerplants.
		The contamination level in Silkwood's apartment was such that many of her personal belongings had to be destroyed.
		Silkwood herself was sent to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to determine the extent of contamination in her vital body organs.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/silkwood.html (4406 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Silkwood (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As the movie opens, Karen Silkwood fits naturally into this world, and the movie is the story of how she begins to stand out, how she becomes an individual, thinks for herself and is punished for her freedom.
		Silkwood is played by Meryl Streep, in another of her great performances, and there's a tiny detail in the first moments of the movie that reveals how completely Streep has thought through the role.
		"Silkwood" is the story of an ordinary woman, hard-working and passionate, funny and screwed-up, who made those people mad simply because she told the truth as she saw it and did what she thought was right.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19831214/REVIEWS/312140302/1023 (623 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)

	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)

	Amazon.com: The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case: Books: Richard L. Rashke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Karen Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant, was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver important documents to a newspaper reporter in 1974.
		Silkwood was a union activist concerned about health and safety issues at the plant, and her death at age twenty-eight was considered by many to be highly suspicious.
		Silkwood was most likely carrying important documents the night she was murdered; among other things, she had proof that 42.5 pounds of plutonium was missing from K-M's Cimarron plant, which is enough to make three or four nuclear bombs.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395302331?v=glance (2070 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.
		Mazzocchi spoke about Silkwood's role as a trailblazer who had the courage to demand safe working conditions for her fellow employees and noted that worker safety is still an important issue today.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/00/5.4.00/Silkwood.html (598 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Silkwood at Epinions.com
		Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) is a blue collar worker at a nuclear power plant in Oklahoma.
		"Silkwood" was one of eleven films in which she was Oscar nominated, but her chances of winning were slim, having won Best Actress the year before in "Sophie's Choice".
		The biggest problem with "Silkwood" is the slow pacing; perhaps even twenty minutes could have been trimmed from the 125 minute running time.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-5261-99B2C73-386EF588-prod1 (534 words)

	Installation Guide - Silkwood
		Silkwood is a hardwood engineered flooring system that is fast and easy to install.
		On occasion Silkwood is glued directly to the sub-floor however it is predominantly installed as a floating floor.
		If you install your Silkwood floor with existing skirtings in place use a fillet mould or scotia to cover the gap, fixed to the skirting and not the floor.
	www.boral.com.au /Article/Timber_Installation_Guide_-_Silkwood.asp?aud=timberflooring (1297 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)

	Silkwood movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		Silkwood is also about a situation in which a company dealing with dangerous material (in this case, a nuclear plant) is also corrupt in its dealings, risking the lives of its employees, and possibly the community.
		Silkwood is much about Karen's everyday life as it is about her investigation, and often the two sides collide.
		Silkwood is often too laid-back to feel very powerful or assertive, but, then again, the movie is meant to be a portrait of regular people, not a simplistic good-guy/bad-guy morality tale.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/s/silkwood.htm (996 words)

	Amazon.com: Silkwood (1983) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The film clearly implies that Silkwood was murdered because she was about to expose safety violations at her plant; en route to her late-night meeting with a New York Times reporter, she was run off of the road.
		In fact, the film doesn't even address the most serious accusations - that Silkwood was part of a larger conspiracy that involved a number of state and federal agencies, that she was spied on by both K-M and the FBI, and that she may have stumbled across an international plutonium smuggling ring.
		The lesbian storyline involving Silkwood's roommate Dolly (played by a refreshingly unglamorous Cher) struck me as silly and extraneous, particularly since, in real life, Silkwood's roommate was merely an acquaintance (not a good friend), and Silkwood was the one suspected of being a lesbian.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302844061?v=glance (1707 words)

	Karen Silkwood remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		While she was collecting evidence, Silkwood's phone was bugged, her movements monitored and, worst of all, she was deliberately contaminated with plutonium.
		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 /back/2001/458/458p9.htm (960 words)

	Stories along the Trail - The Cherokee Trail of Tears - Priscilla Hollyhocks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Upon her return she asked, "Are you Marse Silkwood?" He then recognized her as one of the slaves he had know on the plantation in Georgia.
		She is buried in the family plot beside Silkwood and his wife in the Reid cemetery near the old roadway north of the Silkwood home.
		Silkwood came upon the Cherokee Indians and their slaves being moved across country by the United States government.
	rosecity.net /tears/trail/priscila.html (1440 words)

	Silkwood-- Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Silkwood is fair, and is not on a "no-nukes" tirade.
		Silkwood is an important movie and also a very, very good one.
		Silkwood is being released at this time of year to qualify for the Oscars, not to cash in on the recent holiday spirit.
	www.geocities.com /amensoccer/reviews/rvsilk.html (440 words)

	Silkwood Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Silkwood Dream is a new home residential builder which operates exclusively within the Northern growth corridor of Melbourne.
		Our philosophy at Silkwood Dream is to localize our business of home building in one given region to ensure maximum quality of construction through the procurement of the regions best trade subcontractors.
		Silkwood Dream is a registered Master Builder, member of the Housing Industry Association and a Registered Building Practitioner.
	www.silkwooddream.com.au (166 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Silkwood
		Oklahomans Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) and Drew Stephens (Kurt Russell) work together at a nuclear materials facility and rent a house in a loose arrangement with Dolly Pelliker (Cher).
		Silkwood tells the story of three roommates, two sharing a relationship and a third who'd like to be in a same-sex relationship with one of the other two.
		Silkwood is an acquisition from ABC Motion Pictures, and the format may have been dictated by available elements, or contracts.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1026silk.html (1513 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: SILKWOOD, KAREN GAY
		Karen Gay Silkwood, union activist, the daughter of William and Merle Silkwood, was born on February 19, 1946, in Longview, Texas.
		As environmental concerns increased in the 1970s, Kerr-McGee faced litigation involving worker safety and environmental contamination, and Silkwood testified to charges before the Atomic Energy Commission that she had suffered radiation exposure in a series of unexplained incidents.
		Silkwood was the subject of a motion picture, Silkwood, released in 1984.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/fsi35.html (465 words)

	Silkwood Steiner Primary School : Gold Coast primary school alternative education in Nerang, Queensland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Taryn Singleton began last week, and she is already starting to understand what it is like to be a Silkwood student.
		Another big thank you to all my colleagues here at Silkwood who are such great teachers and have always been available to share their experience and help out despite their own busy class planning schedule.
		I can hardly believe that the end of the year is nigh and to sum up in Shaun's words at his Play night "we thank the parents of the Silkwood community for trusting and believing in us enough to teach your children".
	www.silkwoodsteiner.qld.edu.au /newsletters.htm (4661 words)

	Silkwood Furniture \| Quality Kitchens & Specialized Cabinet Making \| Melbourne \| Victoria \| Cabinet Makers \| Olinda ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Silkwood Furniture is a manufacturer of high quality Kitchens and Joinery.
		Silkwood furniture is a family owned and operated business set in the picturesque Dandenong Ranges.
		Using a combination of modern techniques, traditional quality and the finest materials we design and manufacture all of our work to the highest standard to create a product to suit your personal style and requirements.
	www.tradespro.com /silkwood (127 words)

	DVD : Silkwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		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...
		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...
	www.prep4usmle.com /B0000AM6IS/Silkwood.htm (613 words)

	Silkwood Film Review - Time Out Film
		A 'people' movie rather than an 'issue' movie, setting nuclear martyr Karen Silkwood's battle with an uncaring nuclear industry against a backdrop of a troubled love affair, unwanted lesbian affection, child custody, and the eternal favourite of One Woman Against It All.
		Silkwood's 'ordinariness' protects her from being labelled a wild-eyed Trot, but that should not be allowed to obscure her courage or the whitewash ladled onto her story after her death.
		Tiptoeing up to the final seconds of her life, swerving around any contentious points during it, and trying to have it both ways in the contradictory final reel, Silkwood runs a mile from hazarding its own opinion, and instead treats us to countless back-porch heart-to-hearts and lots of lovely countryside.
	www.timeout.com /film/74667.html (220 words)

	Silkwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Silkwood is a 1983 film which tells the true story of Karen Silkwood, who died under suspicious circumstances while investigating wrongdoings at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked.
		It stars Meryl Streep in the title role, as well as Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, David Straithairn, Bruce McGill, Diana Scarwid, Ron Silver, Susie Bond and Fred Ward.
		It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Meryl Streep), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cher), Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silkwood (195 words)

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