Chernobyl vodka: First consumer product made in exclusion zone
"This is no more radioactive than any other vodka," says Prof Smith."So we took rye that was slightly contaminated and water from the Chernobyl aquifer and we distilled it.
Speaking to me during a trip to the exclusion zone, where I was following the team as they carried out their environmental research and crop-growing studies, he explained that the rye grain and the resulting spirit show how some of the land could be used productively. "There are radiation hotspots [in the exclusion zone] but for the most part contamination is lower than you'd find in other parts of the world with relatively high natural background radiation," he says.
"Because now," Prof Smith adds,"after 30 years, I think the most important thing in the area is actually economic development, not the radioactivity."What does it taste like?
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