Silkwood
On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear facility, left to meet with a reporter from the New York Times. She never got there.
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.
- Year: 1983
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Studio: ABC Motion Pictures
- Keyword: research, plutonium, radiation, oklahoma, nuclear power plant, idealism, idealist, fighting the system
- Director: Mike Nichols
- Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward, Diana Scarwid