Manufacturing Industry
The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case, 2nd edition.(Review) (book review)
Industrial Relations (Canadian), January, 2001 by SASS, ROBERT
by Richard RASHKE, Ithaca: ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 2000, 448 pp., ISBN 0-8014-8667-X.
Karen Silkwood was killed on November 13, 1974, at 28 years of age while driving to meet a reporter from the New York Times with documentation about plutonium fuel rod tampering at the Kerr-McGee uranium and plutonium plants in Cimarron, Oklahoma. Richard Rashke, an investigative reporter, has a clear purpose in telling Silkwood's story, a story about perilous working conditions and defective products at Kerr-McGee and her fight against the indifference of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Justice Department, the FBI, and the Atomic Energy Control Board.
Rashke's account demystifies the U.S. nuclear industry by piecing together fragments from...
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