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Karen Silkwood

2021/4/15
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Karen Silkwood, an employee of a plutonium processing plant, became contaminated with radioactive particles and mysteriously died in a car accident while trying to deliver documents exposing safety issues at her job.

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A whistleblower who uncovered health and safety issues in a nuclear facility. While delivering secret documents to a New York Times writer, she mysteriously died. Was it Big Oil?

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