One such person was Karen Silkwood, an employee at a Kerr-McGee plutonium plant outside of Oklahoma City.
The short version of the story is that Karen Silkwood worked as a technician at the plant and her direct experience of being exposed to plutonium and radioactive dust as well as many complaints from fellow workers turned her into an advocate for nuclear safety as a representative of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union.
She began to document safety failures, had assembled a dossier on many violations and problems at the plant and was on her way to a meeting on November 13, 1974 with an OCAWU leader and a journalist from the New York Times when she was killed in a single car crash. It appeared that her car had been forced off the road from behind. The folder of documentation disappeared, never to be found.
