Well it seems part of the nuclear waste needing reprocessing is the US groundwater supply.  The wonderful wizards that bring US  nuke-you-ler power have been caught leaking radioactive water into our groundwater.

But only in Illinois?  Well not exactly, they have been caught doing this in Florida also...and Mass...and New York...and?

"The NRC records also indicated that over these years the St. Lucie reactors had released over 6800 Curies of liquid tritium--radioactive hydrogen--into local waters. Community groups in western Massachusetts have implicated liquid tritium releases from the now defunct Yankee Rowe nuclear reactor as the cause of abnormally high rates of five kinds of cancer and Down's Syndrome. And in Suffolk County on New York's eastern Long Island, residents have filed a $2 billion lawsuit against the operators of a research reactor at Brookhaven National Laboratory, contending that its leaks of tritium and other radioactive substances into the groundwater have contaminated their community water supply."

http://www.sprol.com/?s=teeth

Still want a nuke plant in your backyard?  Make sure you have really good health insurance, for your kids especially!  Cancer treatment is extremely expensive.

But maybe with new improved plants these leaks will not happen?  Would you bet your kid's lives on that?

But the worst part of this story?  No filter will separate tritium from groudwater.  Only the incredibly energy intensive process used to make fuel for thermonuclear fusion bombs can do that.

The energy to clean this groundwater pollution would dwarf all the power ever produced by nuclear power plants.