The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case Cover
Podcast Mentions

The Killing of Karen Silkwood The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case

Richard L. Rashke

Relates the intriguing conspiracy case and death of Karen Silkwood, a union activist deliberately contaminated with plutonium who subsequently died in a car accident en route to delivering corporate documents to a reporter

Podcasts 1
Quotes 2
20/20

Podcast

20/20

In episode 3, the hosts referenced the book while describing the detailed process used to check Karen's contamination, noting that it explained the detection methods and the spiking of her samples. They quoted the author to illustrate how counters were used to detect contamination on the body and clothing.

Episode: 'Radioactive' - Ep. 3: Contaminated

The hosts cited the book while describing the detailed process used to check Karen's contamination, noting it explained the detection methods and the spiking of her samples.

"

According to Richard Raskey, author of The Killing of Karen Silkwood, the process went something like this. They would use a counter up and down your body to see whether they detected any contamination like on your clothing, on your body. Click, click, click, click, click, click, you could hear it.

Here is Richard Raskey again, author of The Killing of Karen Silkwood.

Note: The book recommendations on this page are discovered automatically from podcast transcripts, and may be incorrect or incomplete.