Karen Silkwood, a nuclear technician, born on February 19th, 1974, worked at a nuclear plant in Cimmaron, Oklahoma. Silkwood began to notice health and safety violations shortly after starting work at the plant and begins to document them (Karen Silkwood dies in one car crash 1). Her job, which involved manufacturing fuel rods which contain plutonium particles, caused her to become contaminated with plutonium, which the company did not warn her of the dangers. Silkwood quickly took notice of this and begins to warn workers that they may be contaminated. Due to this, Silkwood travels to Washington D.C to testify to the health and safety regulations at the plant, claiming they were falsified (Warnes 1). Upon her return, it was found through tests
