Word: karens
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Three Mile Island also comes at a time of renewed interest in the case of Karen Silkwood, who was killed in 1974 when her car ran off a road as she was on her way to meet with a reporter to discuss the unsafe handling of highly radioactive plutonium at a Kerr-McGee Corp. plant in Oklahoma. The trial in an $11.5 million suit filed by Silkwood's family against the company is now under way in Oklahoma City...
...students who discovered the mistake, Eileen M. Sweeney '82 and Karen E. Rochlin '82, said yesterday Dingman reassigned them from Kirkland House to Leverett House, their original first choice, after he recognized the error...
...Karen Silkwood a willing or innocent nuclear victim...
...careened off a country road in Oklahoma and crumpled against a culvert. Its sole occupant lay dead, surrounded by a litter of papers she had been carrying. Karen Silkwood, 28, a lab technician in a plant producing fuel rods for nuclear reactors, had been driving to meet a New York Times reporter. She hoped to document her charges that officials at the installation, owned by the Kerr-McGee Corp., had continually and carelessly exposed their employees to one of the world's most dangerous metals: plutonium. But after the car was towed from the ditch, the papers could...
Part of the film's sense of realism comes from the well-researched script. Each of the nuclear accident sequences is based on documented accidents in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission files, and the film also contains an incident reminiscent of the death of Karen Silk wood, an employee of a nuclear equipment manufacturing plant who was killed in an auto accident while she was driving to meet a union official and a New York Times reporter...