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Silkwood
GERMANY · 1983

Silkwood

Mike Nichols
corporate corruption nuclear safety worker exploitation whistleblowing radiation poisoning
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Synopsis

Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.

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