Silkwood is a movie about a woman named Karen Silkwood who worked at a power plant. After working there for many years she soon discovered that the radiation could kill many people. After discovering there "scam" of filling the defects on the x-rays with a pen, she works with others to try and shut down the plant. Many employees are very upset with her because they do not want to loose their jobs. After being contaminated twice she soon discovered that someone was after her, probably for her part in trying to shut down the plant. She was then killed in a car accident. Police ruled her death a drunk driving accident, but no one knows that for a fact, and nobody knows how much information she really had on the plant. The plant was shut down a year later. This movie was very informative about what radiation can do to a person.