A Company From Chernobyl Tried To Export Their First Ever Alcohol And That Got Shut Down Reallllll Quick

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BBC - The first bottles of an "artisanal spirit" made using apples grown near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have been seized by Ukrainian authorities.

The Chernobyl Spirit Company said 1,500 bottles of Atomik alcoholic drink were confiscated on 19 March and taken to the Kyiv Prosecutor's office.

Officers took the shipment from a truck at a distillery in the Carpathians.

The spirit, its producers say, is Chernobyl's first consumer product since the 1986 nuclear disaster.

The social enterprise company that makes Atomik is run by scientists who work in the 4,000 square kilometre Chernobyl exclusion zone - an area abandoned after the catastrophic 1986 nuclear disaster. Their studies have included growing experimental crops to find out if grain, and other food grown in the zone, could be used to make products that are safe to consume.

Oh come on. Could a bottle of hooch from Chernobyl really be that much worse than what we drink every Friday and Saturday night? I cannot imagine it's much worse than a cooler of Jungle Juice you could find in any frat house basement across America on any given college football Saturday. And remember Long Island Ice Teas? You probably had one of those, once, and then remember nothing else afterwards. And finally, never forget original 4 Loko. Boy, that was a THING.

So could the Chernobyl alcohol really hurt anyone? I mean, it's been 35 years at this point, seems like maybe we should get over it. We drink alcohol to destroy our bodies to begin with, a little nuclear waste mixed in wouldn't be the end of the world. So what if your pee glows and you grow a 3rd eye? I could use a little spice in my life anyway. So sign me up for the "Atomik". Great name by the way, really leaning into it. Hopefully this stuff hits the states soon.