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October 07, 2010

Sludge Cleanup Begins In Hungary As Search For Victims Goes On ...

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Devecser, Hungary (CNN) Rescue workers searched Wednesday for six elderly people missing at Kolontar, one of three villages in southwest Hungary that was hit Monday by a wave of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant reservoir that [...]

October 09, 2010

Red Sludge Only Latest Hungarian Calamity

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KOLONTAR, Hungary The disaster that buried three Hungarian villages in caustic red sludge this week is deepening the gloom of a country gripped by [...]

October 08, 2010

2 More Bodies Found In Hungary's Red Sludge

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KOLONTAR, Hungary The mighty Danube apparently absorbed Hungary's massive red sludge spill with little immediate damage Friday but laboratory tests [...]

October 08, 2010

Hungary's Red Sludge Nearly Equals Gulf Oil Spill (AP) At Science

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AP - The mighty Danube apparently absorbed Hungary's massive red sludge spill with little immediate damage Friday but laboratory tests heightened concerns about possible longer-term harm caused by toxic heavy metals in the slurry. [...]

October 09, 2010

Hungary's Premier Says Red Sludge Reservoir Walls 'very Likely' To Collapse

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Hungary's premier warned on Saturday that the wall of a damaged industrial reservoir was likely to collapse, threatening a second spill of toxic red sludge, [...]

October 07, 2010

Toxic Sludge From Plant Floods Hungary Towns

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The Hungarian government declared a state of emergency in several towns yesterday, a day after a reservoir at an alumina production plant in Ajka burst its banks, unleashing a flood of toxic red sludge that killed at least four people and injured more than 120, government officials said. [...]

October 10, 2010

No New Cracks Found On Red Sludge Pool In Hungary

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AP DEVECSER, Hungary Officials in Hungary say no new cracks have been detected overnight on the north wall of the red sludge reservoir which was thought [...]

October 09, 2010

Red Sludge: Latest Disaster Roils Hungary, A Nation With Calamitous History

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KOLONTAR, Hungary The disaster that buried three Hungarian villages in caustic red sludge this week is deepening the gloom of a country gripped by [...]

October 09, 2010

Red Sludge Toxicity Levels Dropping, Hungarian Government Officials Say

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[...] from "injuries sustained in the torrent," as "the mighty Danube apparently absorbed Hungary's massive red sludge spill with little immediate damage. [...]

October 09, 2010

Red Sludge Rescue Continues In Hungary

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An emergency rescue operation is underway in Hungary to deal with the aftermath of a massive flood of toxic red sludge. To view this content you need Flash [...]

October 09, 2010

Hungary Toxic Sludge Creates Fears

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Hungary toxic sludge creates fears. IN Hungary, toxic red sludge that is the byproduct of making aluminum has broken free from a reservoir and could unleash [...]

October 08, 2010

2 More Bodies Found In Hungary's Red Sludge

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By Darko Bandic, AP By Dinah Spritzer, Special to USA TODAY PRAGUE The mighty Danube apparently absorbed Hungary's massive red sludge spill with little [...]

October 10, 2010

No New Cracks Found On Red Sludge Pool In Hungary

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Two more victims of Hungary's flood of red sludge were found on Friday, bringing the death toll to [...] The death toll from Hungary's toxic sludge spill rose [...]

October 10, 2010

Hungary Sludge Reservoir At Risk Of Collapse

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Bela Szandelszky,Pablo Gorondi, AP Bela Szandelszky / AP Footsteps wind through toxic red sludge in Devecser, Hungary. The sludge, which experts say appears [...]

October 07, 2010

Hungary Launches Probe As Red Sludge Spreads

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[...] 2010 Rescue services say the reservoir of an alumina plant in western Hungary has burst, flooding several towns including Devecser with red sludge. [...]

October 07, 2010

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JULIAN RUSH: Three people are still missing two days after this lethal torrent of red sludge swept through the villages in the Hungarian countryside, [...]

October 07, 2010

Hungarian Towns Begin Cleanup Of Nightmarish Red Sludge

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A wave of caustic red sludge had just poured in over the back fence and was descending rapidly over the backyard, smothering chickens and hares as well as a [...]

October 10, 2010

Hungary Builds Dam As New Toxic Flood Fears Rise

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[...] dam near a chemical plant in western Hungary Sunday amid fears of a new flood of toxic red sludge that forced 1000 villagers to evacuate their homes. [...]

October 09, 2010

Hungarian PM Promises Barrier To Protect Property From Red Sludge

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Speaking at a news conference in Ajka in the region, Orban warned that the containment barrier holding millions more gallons of caustic red sludge was so [...]

October 07, 2010

Toxic Red Sludge Floods Devecser In Hungary

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The red sludge's high alkali concentration makes the mud toxic, the risk of which might only become transparent during the recovery of the towns. [...]

October 07, 2010

Hungary Launches Probe As Red Sludge Spreads

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A criminal probe into the toxic sludge disaster in western Hungary has been launched amid fresh concerns that the Danube River could still be at risk. [...]

October 09, 2010

Seven Killed, Town Cleared By Toxic Flood

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Red death [...] caustic red sludge from the chemical spill engulfs the Hungarian village of Devecser. BUDAPEST: Hungarian authorities evacuated a village near [...]

October 09, 2010

Deadly Trio: Gulf Oil Spill, Coal Ash, And Red Sludge

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As my colleague Raviya Ismail described yesterday, the flood of toxic red sludge in Hungary is ominously similar to the toxic coal ash flood two years ago [...]

October 09, 2010

Seven Dead From Hungary Sludge

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Speaking at a news conference in Austria, charity representatives said the detected arsenic concentration was twice that normally found in so-called "red [...]

October 10, 2010

Fears Of Further Red Sludge Deluge Have Been Called Off, Hungarian Authorities ...

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Engineers working on the disaster site of aluminum plant in Hungary have not found any new cracks in the reservoir of red sludge which was earlier feared to [...]


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