Word: kerr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 not be found...
Those bare facts seemed suspicious enough in 1974 to touch off a series of newspaper and magazine articles by investigative reporters. The Silkwood case was quickly embraced by environmentalists, nuclear energy foes, feminists and civil libertarians. They saw the Kerr-McGee facility near Crescent, Okla., as an ugly symbol of an industry seeking profits while endangering its employees and nearby communities. Last week, for the first time, the case moved into a public courtroom. Silkwood's family is seeking $11.5 million in damages from Kerr-McGee for exposing her to dangerous levels of plutonium. Its other...
...describe our actions as being "opportunistic" is indeed insulting when it represents purely uninformed and biased opinion. We hope the Editorial Board will in the future be more responsible in expressing its opinions and try harder to show all viewpoints before commenting on any particular issue. Michael T. Kerr...
...Kerr said the report, dated November 22, had both his and Whitlock's names on it although neither of them had ever seen it before it reached University administrators...
...Kerr and Whitlock did not attend the meeting at which the ad hoc committee drew up the report because of a "communications mix-up," Mayer said. It was a mistake that the report was circulated before they had attached their comments to it, he added...