Word: cimarron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accident. The family also intends to call former company employees, including a plant manager, to testify to these and other mishandlings of the fuel. The witnesses are expected to tell, for example, of the night that workers were dispatched by the company to retrieve dead fish from the nearby Cimarron River in an unsuccessful attempt to conceal the dumping of radioactive wastes into the stream...
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Karen Silkwood was a $4-an-hour technician at Kerr-McGee Corp.'s Cimarron River plutonium plant about 30 miles north of Oklahoma City. The facility makes plutonium pellet fuel rods for the breeder reactor, a second-generation nuclear power plant now being developed. Silkwood was one of the most active members of local 5-283 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. She was deeply concerned about how plutonium was handled. And with good reason. Inhalation or swallowing of a few specks of the radioactive element can result in cancer. Exposure to slightly greater quantities can cause...
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