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U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander said he's all in favor of banning exports of mercury to help the environment, but not if it means shipping thousands of tons of the toxic metal to Oak Ridge and storing it here forever.
The Y-12 nuclear weapons plant already houses about 1,200 tons of mercury, left over from the plant's Cold War work on the hydrogen bomb, and Alexander said that's enough.
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