Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery

Fantastic Narration The story is important but if the narration is bad you just simply cant listen. These Guys get a 10 all around. Hope to hear them cover more stories. A New Fan 🦋

Thank you for honoring Karen’s memory through this podcast. They make a great point about how big tech companies seem to be gearing up for a second try with nuclear energy. The reviewer who seems to find this idea silly or unimportant misses the point. Yes, we do use services provided by big tech, but we shouldn’t be using them so much. Humans as a whole are using these technologies entirely too much, and the right answer may not be to give new life to an energy source that has proven extremely dangerous. If we do try nuclear energy again, I hope we will really take what we learned from the last time and do better. I hope that Karen’s legacy and care for worker safety can be carried on somehow in tangible ways in the future. Best wishes to the writers and to the family.

Good reporting, great storytelling. Not my usual type of host-duo choice, but what an interesting and telling story about big nuclear business in America and the expendability of women at the hands of those with power. Excellent for binge-ability.

I remember this when it was happening and hung on every twist and turn. Company certainly came across as the big bad wolf. Now, all these years later we are afforded a deeper look at those events by two men who weren’t afraid to look behind the curtain to uncover the facts and talk to the people who were there. Thank you for presenting this case and I’m sad that it is now over. I wanted many more episodes.

The storytelling is well-done and intriguing, but the script has too much hearsay and confirmation bias.

I’m glad I listened because I did not know the Karen Silkwood story and it is very interesting. The narration was not my favorite. I agree with the daughter’s quote. Too much focus on the crash and conspiracy theories. Would have loved to hear more about the contamination in her home and the litigation. More science about plutonium. More details about the cleanup of the facility.