CRESCENT, Okla. — The 28-year-old lab worker investigated alleged wrongdoing at an Oklahoma nuclear fuel facility, and was on her way to meet with a New York Times reporter when she died in a fatal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years after the crash that killed Karen Silkwood on a dark stretch of Oklahoma's Highway 74, a rekindled effort to get to ...

If things had been different, Karen Silkwood would have kept that appointment with the New York Times about the alleged hazards at an Oklahoma plant. The world could have read her story and a mother ...

“LEAKERS,” to use today’s vernacular, have never had an easy time of it. Most rarely begin as whistleblowers, alerting others to danger and criminal activities. Too many, like Karen Silkwood, end up ...

Twenty-seven years ago, US anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood was killed in a car crash many suspect was deliberately caused by the Kerr McGee nuclear company. Karen Silkwood will be remembered as ...

Karen Silkwood was either a martyr among whistleblowers and nuclear safety activists, or, if you believe her employer’s account, a lunatic who smeared plutonium on the bologna in her fridge. As a lab ...

Four years after Sally Field unionized her cotton mill in Norma Rae, and Jane Fonda uncovered terrifying wrong-doing at her local nuclear power plant in The China Syndrome, another legendary Hollywood ...

Fifty years ago, the death of a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker and whistleblower in Oklahoma -- a death many found mysterious and sparked decades of speculation -- shocked the nation. The official ...

The 28-year-old whistleblower investigated alleged wrongdoing at an Oklahoma nuclear fuel facility, and was reportedly on her way to meet a New York Times reporter when she died in a fatal car crash ...