Questions Linger About The Death Of Karen Silkwood And Safe Management Of Plutonium

Karen Silkwood's fatal car crash on November 13, 1974, raised questions about the safe production of plutonium at the Kerr-McGee facility in Crescent, Oklahoma.

The first investigative report from a six-part series by NPR's Barbara Newman.

This story originally aired on All Things Considered on March 31, 1975.

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