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Use the ring homomorphism k[t]→k[x] given by t↦x2. The source scheme X=Speck[x] is an integral scheme. At the rational point y=(t), its residue field is k, and its scheme-theoretic fibre is
Xy​=Spec(k[x]⊗k[t]​k)=Spec(k[x]/(x2)).​
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The class of x is nonzero but has square zero, so this is not a reduced scheme. This example works over every field. An integral total space therefore need not have reduced fibres.

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