{"id":61812,"date":"2021-05-11T21:33:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/05\/11\/alcohol-made-near-chernobyls-exclusion-siezed-by-ukrainian-authorities\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:52:47","slug":"alcohol-made-near-chernobyls-exclusion-siezed-by-ukrainian-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/off-duty\/2021\/05\/11\/alcohol-made-near-chernobyls-exclusion-siezed-by-ukrainian-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol made near Chernobyl\u2019s exclusion zone seized by Ukrainian authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like many of you, I turned to HBO\u2019s \u201cChernobyl\u201d to fill the gaping void left when \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d aired its final and extremely unsatisfying season. The horror of the 1986 nuclear reactor meltdown in Pripyat, Ukraine, brought to life for television reinvigorated the general public\u2019s interest in the area, which hosts a 1,600 square-mile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Chernobyl-disaster#ref1255320\" target=\"_blank\">exclusion zone<\/a> that has been abandoned since the disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for others, like The Chernobyl Spirit Company, the exclusion zone is a land of opportunity. At least, until their first batch of \u201cATOMIK,\u201d an alcohol distilled from slightly radioactive apples, was seized by Ukrainian authorities on its way to the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt seems that they are accusing us of using forged Ukrainian excise stamps, but this doesn\u2019t make sense since the bottles are for the UK market and are clearly labeled with valid UK excise stamps,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.port.ac.uk\/portal\/en\/persons\/jim-smith(11c679d2-0da6-448f-b87e-aa2be579f070).html\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Smith<\/a>, an environmental science professor at Portsmouth University and the founder of The Chernobyl Spirit Company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomikvodka.com\/post\/press-release-06-may-2021\" target=\"_blank\">in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chernobyl Spirit Company has for the last two years worked with the Palinochka Distillery to produce ATOMIK using apples from the Narodychi District \u2014 one of the only remaining inhabited areas affected by the accident. It\u2019s an artisinal vodka, more lovingly referred to as a moonshine, which is completely safe, according to scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is no more radioactive than any other vodka,\u201d Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-49251471?\" target=\"_blank\">told BBC in 2019<\/a>. \u201cAny chemist will tell you, when you distil something, impurities stay in the waste product. We asked our friends at Southampton University, who have an amazing radio-analytical laboratory, to see if they could find any radioactivity. They couldn\u2019t find anything \u2014 everything was below their limit of detection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The venture is designed to give back to local communities affected by the disaster. 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