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

Question

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?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Because there are far more dangerous things to worry about; the last nuclear meltdown was Fukushima Daiichi. One death was directly attributed to the event and that was a worker in the plant. The one before that was Chernobyl which resulted in 78 deaths.