Hey listeners, we're sharing something special this week. It's an episode of the new podcast,

Radioactive, the Karen Silkwood mystery. It details the death of a 28-year-old whistleblower, which,

50 years later, continues to haunt Oklahoma and the nation. The young plutonium plant worker

died in a fatal crash while driving to meet a reporter with the New York Times.

She'd agreed to deliver sensitive documents that were never found.

Two reporters who covered the story in 1974 have spent years trying to piece together what many in Oklahoma speculate.

Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew.

Now, here newly discovered investigative tapes, deathbed revelations, and long-awaited interviews, reexamining what happened that night.

Fifty years later, the story still resonates, nuclear secrets, threats to the powerful,

and why the truth stubbornly refuses to stay buried.

Okay, here comes the episode. You can listen to more episodes of Radioactive, wherever you get your

podcasts.

Last year, my buddy Mike and I found ourselves inside a giant warehouse,

with hundreds of big wooden storage containers stacked floor to ceiling.

It felt like a scene from an Indiana Jones movie.

You know, the one where the government stores the Lost Ark

in a massive warehouse filled with crates

where it'll never be found.

Well, we were definitely searching for lost treasure,

hoping one of these storage containers would hold the key

to a 50-year-old mystery. Okay, it's coming out.

We pulled out box after box, each one sealed with layers of thick packing tape.

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