A NEW vodka is made of apples from Chernobyl’s radioactive zone.
UK and Ukrainian scientists created the spirit, ATOMIK, to support communities affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster.
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It uses apples from the Narodychi district, partly covered by the abandoned exclusion zone.
Viktor Feer, director of the Palinochka Distillery where it is made, said: “It is robust but smooth with clear hints of apple reminiscent of a beautiful Ukrainian autumn.”
Its makers insist the drink is no more radioactive than other spirits.
Prof Jim Smith, from the University of Portsmouth, said: “We believe the accident’s social and economic impacts are now a much bigger problem than the radiation.”
We try Atomik Vodka’s apple spirit made from fruit grown near CHERNOBYL
