A team of British scientists has helped produce a radioactivity-free vodka called "ATOMIK" from crops near the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the University of Portsmouth said on Thursday. The team did find some radioactivity in the grain but said the normal distillation process
London - A team of British scientists has helped produce a radioactivity-free vodka called"ATOMIK" from crops near the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the University of Portsmouth said on Thursday.
"I think this is the most important bottle of spirits in the world because it could help the economic recovery of communities living in and around the abandoned areas," university professor Jim Smith said in a statement. After the accident, a 30-kilometre exclusion zone was established around the plant. Commercial farming is still banned both there and in a wider surrounding area.
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