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Kiravia has 70 operating nuclear reactors that generate just over 20% of the nation's electricity, making them the nation's largest non-conventional energy source. | Kiravia has 70 operating nuclear reactors that generate just over 20% of the nation's electricity, making them the nation's largest non-conventional energy source. | ||
Nuclear research was a high priority for both the [[Kiravian Union]] and [[Kiravian Remnant]], but was of special importance to the Kiravian Union which, commercially isolated and in grave need of energy to fuel its state-driven economic development plans, invested very heavily in civil nuclear research and the construction of scores of nuclear power stations across its territory. | Nuclear research was a high priority for both the [[Kiravian Union]] and [[Kiravian Remnant]], but was of special importance to the Kiravian Union which, commercially isolated and in grave need of energy to fuel its state-driven economic development plans, invested very heavily in civil nuclear research and the construction of scores of nuclear power stations across its territory. Nuclear research and development has continued and intensified since reunification under the sponsorship of the [[Kiravian Energy Executive]] as a means to increase price stability and reduce import dependency. After a pause in new construction during the 1980s-1990s during which many existing plants were privatised, the installation and commissioning of new nuclear plants picked up again during the later 2000s thro' 2010s AD. More recent plants have moved away from the traditionally dominant Æ2VD series of light water reactors employed extensively by the Kiravian Union, and toward the KDU series of {{wp|pressurised heavy water reactors}}. | ||
===Fuel=== | ===Fuel=== | ||