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Silkwood Traditional Cache

Hidden : 9/13/2015
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

I was given this by a failing laboratory I visited through work sometime back.  It has taken a while to find a suitable film and location.  I opted for this cache playground found by TrueGeo.


Silkwood is a 1983 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the life of Karen Silkwood.

Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and a labor union activist who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. In real life, her death was vindicated in a victorious 1979 lawsuit, Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee, led by attorney Daniel Sheehan and other founding members of the Christic Institute. The jury rendered its verdict of $10 million in damages to be paid to the Silkwood estate (her children), the largest amount in damages ever awarded for that kind of case at the time. The Silkwood estate eventually settled for $1.3 million. 

A Nano container BYOP and enjoy the cache. You are looking for something that Karen Silkwood might have seen everyday at work, but like her employers did this is covered up!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ba fubj ohg uvqqra, oruvaq ohg ba gur sebag...

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)