Word: silkwoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Anti-nuclear activists, union organizers, feminists, and a Nobel laureate joined in the commemoration of Silkwood, a nuclear lab technician and union organizer who died in a mysterious car accident in November...
...Lovejoy, an anti-nuclear activist and member of the Clamshell Alliance, told the crowd last night, "It's very hard to get union people together with no-nuke supporters, the women's movement, and environmentalists" and because of the wide range of support for Silkwood, her cause is "unique...
...Silkwood supporters organized 140 events throughout the country this week, including rallies and teach-ins in support of Silkwood, Lynda Taylor, spokeswoman for the New England Supporters of Silkwood, said yesterday...