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While Ulholm had represented the first Cryrian foray into commercial nuclear power, by 1974 the Kingdom had broken ground on the much larger Verventis Power Plant. Verventis was billed to the public as the first true example of Cryrian nuclear energy, and would provide power to Leidenstad itself. A second project, the Hallström Power Plant, was simultaneously ongoing but had stalled in the planning phases. Work on Verventis also began as the Kingdom both sought to shed the last legacies of the Tomorrow Ministry and simultaneously grappled with the aftermath of the highly controversial election of 1974, which had been marred by allegations of voter suppression and bomb threats in Lielsta. As such, Verventis was subject to a large-scale government publicity campaign that sought to bring focus to it as an example of Cryrian scientific achievement. Privately, Verventis was also expected to help produce an arsenal of a hundred nuclear devices.
The project almost immediately became mired in political conflicts and legal disputes alongside the rest of the program. The Verventis Plant was to be built atop what had once been a holy site for the Highlands elves, and elven groups were able to leverage new Historic Commission regulations to bring about a Court order halting construction. However, the Historic Commission later changes its own regulations in response, allowing the construction to continue. This resulted in elven groups occupying the site. The National Police in turn moved to eject them in a midnight raid, a decision which led to the infamous Verventis Riots. One person is reported to have died directly in the riots, but some 300 were injured and over 800 arrests were reported. Local hospitals in the rural area were overwhelmed by a massive surge in hypothermia cases as the NP used watercannons in the freezing weather, and it is believed that several more deaths occurred in the immediate aftermath of the clash.
==Major Installations==
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