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 put out next to no pollution. Coal plants are built next to cities and kill million with their pollution and cause smog and poor air quality. The power needs to be made close to where it is used, or it becomes leas efficient moving it, and there are losses in moving it larger distances.

If you built one in the middle of no where, a small town would need to be built around it.

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