The radioactive element iodine-131 has been spreading around Europe in heightened concentrations and everyone is confused as to why it is happening or who is responsible. Hungary thinks they know who: the Budapest-based Institute of Isotopes.
Somebody in Hungary thought that designing high voltage towers in a shape that vaguely resembles a clown is a good idea. As if high voltage towers and their potential cancer-inducing powers weren’t terrifying enough. Somebody needs to get fired.
The toxic red sludge spill in Hungary that killed four people on Monday could take a year to clean up, authorities there said. Meanwhile, workers are still trying to stop the spill from spreading to the Danube and Raba rivers.
You might not know what alumina is – neither did I. But hundreds of Hungarians now do, after torrents of the stuff poured out of a plant and through their villages, prompting the country to declare a state of emergency.