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'Radioactive' - Ep. 2: A Powerful Company

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Karen Silkwood worked for Kerr-McGee, an oil and gas behemoth that was expanding into the nuclear power industry. Escalating production quotas lead to more accidents at the plant, and Karen quietly travels to Washington DC to report concerns about worker safety to her union and to regulators. Before leaving, she volunteers for a risky assignment.  Follow "Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery" now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or your podcast app of choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:18.0

If you drive 40 miles north of Oklahoma City, you reach a town called Crescent.

0:23.6

It's an old farming community.

0:25.6

Population, just over a thousand people, doesn't have big attractions.

0:30.6

Probably the biggest thing this place is known for is this empty white building we're standing in front of. It

0:39.3

looks abandoned.

0:41.3

And we're here at what was the Kerr-Magee-Platonium facility.

0:49.3

Bobby, does it, do you look like it did when you were here?

0:53.3

The parking lot out here wasn't all this growed up back then.

0:57.0

Scragly weeds poked through the pavement.

1:00.0

A couple of orange dumpsters sit outside like they're waiting for something to happen.

1:06.0

This single story building, it looks pretty unremarkable,

1:09.0

like the kind of place you'd go past and

1:12.2

not even notice it. But for us, this isn't just some random place, not by a long shot.

1:20.9

This is what used to be the Kermiggee plutonium processing facility, the place where Karen Silkwood

1:27.4

worked in the 1970s.

1:30.1

I've actually been here a few times before. I've reported on the decades-long process of

1:35.6

getting this plant cleaned up after it closed. Well, they insist that this building is

1:42.3

completely decontaminated. Let's go take a look, huh?

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