Vorosiszap 2010 exhibition opens in Budapest

This exhibition shows a photographic project about one of Hungary’s worst environmental catastrophes. In October 2010, about 700.000 m3 of highly alkaline red mud poured from an alumina tailings reservoir into the Hungarian countryside on an area over 40 km2, emitting radiation and spreading toxic trace metals. Researchers reported that the mud contained toxic vanadium in a chemical form that plants and animals could absorb.