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'Radioactive' - Ep. 3: Contaminated

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

We retrace the final days of Karen’s life: she’s been so badly contaminated by radioactive material that men in hazmat suits show up to inspect her apartment, strip much of it down to the studs, and seal her possessions into 55-gallon drums for disposal. Karen grows fearful the contamination will kill her. Years after her death, Karen's family sues Kerr-McGee for the contamination and for the first time, her allegations against the company are tested in court. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Is crypto perfect?

0:01.9

Nope.

0:02.7

But neither was email when it was invented in 1972.

0:06.0

And yet today, we send 347 billion emails every single day.

0:12.1

Crypto is no different.

0:13.5

It's new.

0:14.2

But like email, it's also revolutionary.

0:17.6

With Crackin, it's easy to start your crypto journey with 24-7 support when you need it.

0:22.6

Go to crackin.com and see what crypto can be. Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:27.3

This is a high-risk investment, and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:33.4

In October, 1974, just about four weeks before her death,

0:39.4

Karen Silkwood filed into the local Veterans Hall with about 20 or 30 other workers from Kermagy's nuclear fuel plant.

0:48.1

And then two of the country's leading experts in nuclear physics told the crowd,

0:52.7

something most of them had never heard before.

0:55.7

Platonium 239 is at least 20,000 times more toxic than Cobra Benham,

1:02.9

20,000 times more toxic than potassium cyanide, which is the gas used in gas chambers,

1:09.8

a thousand times more toxic than heroin,

1:13.2

and the thing that it causes is principally cancers.

1:19.1

According to these scientists, the job these workers were doing,

1:23.3

it was riskier than they thought.

1:25.8

It could make them very, very sick, possibly even kill them.

1:31.1

Steve Wadka, the union staffer who'd been working with Karen,

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