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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Reactors are extremely complicated to build, fuel, cool and operate. You need to transport large amounts of steel, concrete and heavy equipment. You need easy access to the materials and skilled labor for accessories like the buildings, control panels, pumps, roads, transformers and transmission lines. Commercial reactors are mostly cooled by water, so you cannot build one in a remote desert.
To fuel them, you need to transport tons of radioactive material regularly to change the fuel when it gets used up. Finally, the technical people who run the reactor and their families need somewhere attractive and interesting to live nearby as well.
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