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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If you were a nuclear engineer/scientist would you want to live in the middle of nowhere or commute hours to and from work?

Nuclear power plants are not very dangerous to the local area and require high skilled and trustworthy operators. You need to be educated and pass background checks to qualify. So it’s difficult to get a plant like that staffed with people willing to live that far from a city.

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