Posted on 05/17/2021 6:41:52 AM PDT by mylife
A team of British and Ukrainian scientists are battling Ukraine's government in court for the return of 1,500 bottles of liquor made from "radioactive" apples grown near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The liquor, branded as Atomik, is part of a four-year experiment by the scientists to see if they could produce a product safe to consume from crops grown in an area that was contaminated during the 1986 nuclear disaster at the plant.
The team sourced the apples from a farmer inside the outer ring of the 18-mile "Exclusion Zone." Around 10,000 people still live in that outer zone and the scientists hoped that farming, which is still officially banned there, can now be safe to resume.
The first bottle of the liquor was produced in 2019 and scientists used rye grain and water from the Exclusion Zone. This year, the scientists had hoped to ship their first batch to the United Kingdom, with profits intended to go to the local community near Chernobyl.
But in March they hit a roadblock: Ukraine's security service, the SBU, seized the bottles at a distillery plant in western Ukraine.
"I have no idea why. The reason they gave was they thought the bottles had forged duty stamps on. But they clearly had the U.K. stamps on. We hope it was just a mistake," said Jim Smith, a professor of environmental science at the University of Portsmouth and one of the scientists behind the liquor.
The city prosecutor's office in Kyiv told ABC News that the British stamps for the bottles didn't correspond to examples submitted by the plant for registration.
Smith said his team won a first ruling in court to return the impounded liquor but are now awaiting a new hearing after the prosecutors appealed.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc30.com ...
Alfalfa is the best crop to remove radiation, because it absorbs salts and it can be chopped up and burned.
Years ago a small company was touting a pond weed that could clean up a farmer’s manure pond and turn it into potable water. Then they planned to harvest the very lush green leaves of the weed and turning it into health food supplements. The idea never caught on.
This ain’t even vodka. It’s some kind of apple brandy.
Anyway, these people must be out of their minds to even try this.
The product will be returned, after the SBU bureaucrats process the vodka thru their kidneys.
“Anyway, these people must be out of their minds to even try this.”
It’s a Gain of Function.
Oh, so similar to the process with horses to make Miller?
But alfalfa vodka would suck.
ghey radioactive appletini’s?
Would love to try this cuz the Fukushima Apple Saki gives me a giant case of lizard breath.
ping
The movie Eurotrip is hidden gem.
Never, ever forget the word “Fluggaenkoecchicebolsen.”
Mutfriut!
Finders keepers.
Chernobyl nuclear power plant is starting to smoke again trouble my be brewing (no pun) said on science tech report but no word from news out lets.
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