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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Don’t the need like a lot of employees as well, machinery and fuel and supplies and stuff.. so being in the middle of nowhere would be a logistical problem?

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