[kuschku]

> surely it must be possible to place the plants in areas that are not subject to such natural disasters that would threaten the safety of the reactors?

Reactors need lots of water for cooling, so they're regularly placed at rivers. Rivers flood during melting season and storms. Storms also interrupt the grid occasionally. Due to climate change, these events are getting more common.

As a result, anywhere you can place reactors, you'll have to deal with situations where you have no grid connection, no backup power, no generators, and flooding, at unexpected times.

A nuclear reactor needs always, 24/7, forever power due to cooling. This isn't really compatible.