John Garamendi actually said...

"We could use the spent nuclear fuel and that technology, the integral fast reactor pyroprocessing, also could use the material that does not make it into the existing fuel cycle."

"These were private mines that were operated during that period of time in the fifties and that the operators abandoned the mines."

"The proposed action of withdrawal is not yet complete."

"There is a reason why the Navajo Nation has decided not to allow any more exploration in mining on the Navajo Reservation, because they have found it to create health hazards as well as contamination ..."