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American anti-nuclear activist and lab technician who—possibly armed with information that proved tampering in quality control at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Oklahoma City—was killed while driving to meet a reporter from The New York Times.Born Karen Gay Silkwood on February 19, , in Longview, Texas; died in a car accident on her way to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on November 13, ; daughter of William Silkwood (a paint contractor); attended Lamar College in Beaumont; married Bill Meadows, in (divorced ); children: three.

Interested in science, had taken lab technician courses before applying to work in Kerr-McGee's Cimarron nuclear facility in Oklahoma City (); became suspicious of a poor plant safety record of 17 contamination incidents involving 77 employees, all the more so after she was contaminated (); determined to prove the need for better safeguards for workers, gathered information to deliver to David Burnham, a reporter; killed in an auto a