For decades, America’s nuclear waste problem has been buried — both literally and politically. New state-federal agreementFor years, the federal government planned to build a permanent underground storage facility for nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain in Nevada. These are two nuclear power plants situated on Lake Erie, These are the Enrico Fermi power plants. The report compared waste removal in several other countries with the U.S., which produces significantly more nuclear waste than any other country. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 designated Nevada as the sole location for waste storage.