Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant has been forced to cut output for a second day running because the Danube — which it uses as a coolant — has grown too warm, as the country remains under its highest-level heat alert.
Temperatures hit forty degrees Celsius on Saturday at a station just north of Budapest, smashing the previous national record for the date by more than two degrees.
The World Health Organization says more than thirteen hundred excess deaths have been recorded across Europe since the heatwave began on the twenty-first of June.
Pablo Gutierrez reports from Budapest.
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Reporter Pablo Gutierrez in Budapest says the city's transport network has largely kept running, with authorities rerouting passengers away from older vehicles that lack cooling.
He has more.
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Pablo Gutierrez, reporting from Budapest, says residents are looking forward to a sharp drop in temperatures expected by the middle of the week.
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