It's been half a century since a woman was killed in a car crash while on her way to meet with a reporter, hoping to expose wrongdoing at the nuclear plant where she was employed. That woman was Karen ...

Fifty years ago, the death of a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker and whistleblower in Oklahoma -- a death many found mysterious and sparked decades of speculation -- shocked the nation. The official ...

The death of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear whistleblower, seemed to end after the 1983 film "Silkwood" and a $1.38 million settlement. But for her family, the story was far from over. Fifty years ago on ...