after watch silkwood and i become fascinated and mesmerize by the true story behind it . i read the book and buy a and e biography video and and the history channel video represent contaminate and the karen silkwood story . despite read other comment and i totally disagree about karen silkwood who probably save more life and lose her own to protect her colleague and neighbor in crescent and oklahoma . if she have not speak up in the seventy and kerr mcghee would still have a nuclear reactor plant in crescent and oklahoma . what most people do not know be that karen mysterious death haunt a huge enronlike company . the plant close in the following year . the shock discovery such a miss plutonium and horrible working condition for it employee . two shower for the entire company . karen silkwood life be tragically cut short but she do more in 28 year than most people can do in their entire lifetime . meryl streep play her wonderfully . kurt russell and cher play their role quite admirably . this film be show to high school student who become equally fascinate by the story after view the history channel video . after the film and they even want to watch the biography video . now anything that can keep teenager interested in plutonium and nuclear energy be worth all the trouble . this film only criticism from the student be that there be too much smoking in this film . grant and all the main character smoke in the seventy . after all and i think lung cancer from smoke be far less risky than work in a nuclear plant .