Pipe Thread Types and Designations. Overview: Different types of screw threads have evolved for fastening, and hydraulic systems. Of special concern are plastic-. to-metal, taper/parallel threaded joints in hydraulic circuits.
The taut Mike Nichols drama Silkwood (1983) was based on the real life case of a plutonium processing plant metallurgy worker, Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), who discovered corporate powers were covering up radiation leaks at Oklahoma's Kerr-McGee plant.
The movie: Atonement (2007) How she dies: The London tube station that was supposed to serve as her shelter ends up doing her in when it fills with water after a bomb hits during the Blitz. The movie: Silk (2007) How she dies: She dies of one of those fevers that would now be cured with a pill and some Gatorade.