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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.
It is understood that a simultaneous power struggle took place within the Cryrian government between the Securitate and the General Staff. While the occurrence of any such conflict has been denied by successive governments in Leidenstad, among the end results was the cancellation of the military nuclear program. The civilian program would continue and the Verventis Power Plant would ultimately be completed, but the Cryrian government disavowed the development of nuclear weapons. The Kingdom instead moved towards a doctrine of nuclear latency for the remainder of the 20th-century.
==Major Installations==
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