{"id":47083,"date":"2022-03-06T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=47083"},"modified":"2022-03-06T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T20:16:16","slug":"everyday-erinyes-308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/06\/everyday-erinyes-308\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Erinyes #308"},"content":{"rendered":"

Experts in autocracies have pointed out that it is, unfortunately, easy to slip into normalizing the tyrant, hence it is important to hang on to outrage. These incidents which seem to call for the efforts of the Greek Furies (Erinyes) to come and deal with them will, I hope, help with that. As a reminder, though no one really knows how many there were supposed to be, the three names we have are Alecto<\/span><\/strong>, Megaera<\/strong><\/span>, and Tisiphone<\/span><\/strong>. These roughly translate as “unceasing,” “grudging,” and “vengeful destruction.”<\/p>\n

I’ve already said(or implied) that I am too emotionally invested in the Russia-Ukraine confit to wrote about it, and that is still true. This is not so much about the conflict itself as the science behind certain actual and\/or possible developments from that conflict. I think this is important, and I’m sure I’ll get agreement on that.
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Military action in radioactive Chernobyl could be dangerous for people and the\u00a0environment<\/h1>\n
Much of the region around Chernobyl has been untouched by people since the nuclear disaster in 1986.
\nPavlo Gonchar\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Timothy A. Mousseau<\/a>, University of South Carolina<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out. On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl\u2019s reactor number four melted down as a result of human error<\/a>, releasing vast quantities of radioactive particles and gases into the surrounding landscape \u2013 400 times more radioactivity<\/a> to the environment than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Put in place to contain the radioactive contaminants, the exclusion zone also protects the region from human disturbance.<\/p>\n