Why are nuclear reactors commonly built near cities and not in the middle of nowhere like Siberia and Australia?

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Is it because the lack of infrastructure that they can’t deal with it on the offset of a nuclear meltdown? Or that the resources needed to maintain the reactor needs to be efficiently sent?

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Nuclear power plants have a ton of technicians and engineers working at them. Who get paid well, are educated well, and definitely wouldn’t want to live in the middle of nowhere, because they chose such career to live well. Living in the middle of nowhere is not very nice. And whom you can’t find and hire in the middle of nowhere, because such people usually circle near big, advanced cities. Which often become bigger and more advanced due freely available clean power being nearby, like a nuclear plant.

And of course, everything has resistance, including power lines, and resistance basically means that some electricity will not pass the cable, but heat it up, instead. Which means energy loss. The longer the lines, the more you lose.

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