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

Cheaper and more efficient to have the user of power close to the generator. Electricity does not like travelling 1000’s of miles. Long a a high voltage line in your area and see how much land it takes up. Now imagine 10,000 miles of that land.