Since people here
a: know everything about old [1] tv shows
b: have way too much spare time on their hands,
I'm hoping someone can point me to the following:
There was a local, Panix, discussion about Karen "Plutonium"
Silkwood and the Big Budget movie about her ("silkwood" [2])
and it kicked my brain into remembering a similar, earlier,
low budget "made for tv" film.
I don't remember much about it, can't recall the name,
and am not able to place any of the actors... The plot
loosely followed the actual Karen Silkwood saga, with
a female worker at a nuclear processing plant who is
concerned about safety, gets contaminated, and is ostracized
and pressured.
I vaguely recall that she had a friend who, iirc, was
a health physicist at the facility. She seemed to vacillate
between being helpful and being a management shill. Maybe.
Same for the NRC. The investigators treated her like
dirt but eventually she prevailed.
I'm pretty sure there were repeated scenes of her
being forced to take showers to wash off the conatmination
and lots of blood tests, demeaning full physical
exams with urine and fecal collection, etc. (At least
as much as they could show on tv).
The tag line at the end was how the NRC (or maybe the
banks...) had shut down the plant.
Yes, I know this sounds a lot like Silkwood, and I
may be merging some of the scenes, but it was a completely
separate tv film that showed up years before the big movie.
Ring any neurons? Thanks
[1] when did 1970s films and shows get to be old?
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086312/
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