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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Because electricity is needed where people live. And transporting electricity over hundreds of miles is actually a total pain in the ass and more expensive.

It’s WAY easier to generate electricity close to the people that will be using it, than to try and transfer it from really far away.

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