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Weird Wide Web - Chernobyl vodka?

───   15:40 Thu, 13 May 2021

Weird Wide Web - Chernobyl vodka? | News Article

Scientists have created Atomik, a brand of artisan vodka made from rye grown on land in Ukraine, which has been abandoned since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, to help the people living there.

"The first ever bottle of Atomik vodka has been triple distilled then diluted to 40 per cent using uncontaminated groundwater drawn from an aquifer in the town of Chernobyl, 10 kilometers south of the defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant."  

Yes, you read right, Chernobyl is slowly being brought back to life! From being one of the most avoided places in the world, to a place that now provides crops that create one of the world's favourite beverages, Chernobyl is experiencing a revival of sorts.

According to the article, which you can find here, "By making the vodka, the researchers aim to show that alcohol made from crops grown near the site is safe to consume, and provide a means of income for local producers,   After rigorous testing, no radiative isotopes such as plutonium, americium, cesium or strontium show up in the finished product.  Only a trace of carbon-14 can be found in the first bottle of Atomik, a level that is found naturally in alcohol." 

If this might sound too hard to believe, check the video below.




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