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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...
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Jan 27, 1984 · Silkwood: Directed by Mike Nichols. With Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson. A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.
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Dec 11, 2006 · The taut Mike Nichols drama Silkwood (1983) was based on the real life case of a plutonium processing plant metallurgy worker, Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), who discovered corporate powers were covering up radiation leaks at Oklahoma's Kerr-McGee plant.
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Dec 14, 1983 · Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) is a twenty-something hard-living metallurgy worker at the Kerr-McGee plant in Oklahoma, who lives together with her boyfriend (Kurt Russell) and best friend (Cher). When Karen and several other workers become contaminated by radiation, plant officials try to minimize the incident.