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Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery


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Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery — episode 1 — The Tapes
Podcast EpisodeMarch 17, 2026

New Podcast Reopens Karen Silkwood's 50-Year Mystery

Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker in Oklahoma, died in a car crash in November 1974 while driving to meet a journalist with evidence of unsafe conditions. Fifty years later, a new ABC News podcast is reopening questions about her death with newly discovered investigative tapes and accident reconstruction evidence.

Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood MysteryKaren SilkwoodMike Boettcher+12