KIEV, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- A research team of Ukrainian and British scientists developed a new experimental radioactive safe Atomik vodka brand, the first consumer product to come out of Chernobyl area where water and wheat for the product is taken from, reported the Ukrainian state agency on Thursday.
"Water from the Chernobyl wells was used to make the Atomik vodka. Distilled alcohol was diluted with mineral water from a deep aquifer in Chernobyl, which has a similar chemical composition to the groundwater of the Champagne region in France. No radioactive contamination was detected in the water," according to a report from the agency.
Experimental alcohol was presented in the UK as the producers plan to raise brand awareness and start the mass production while 75 percent of the profit of the Atomic sales will be donated to the community of the regions affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
Professor Jim Smith, a professor of environmental science from the University of Portsmouth, said that they aim to make a high-value product to support the economic development of areas outside the main exclusion zone where radiation is no longer a significant health risk.
He said that a radio-analytical lab at Southampton University couldn't find any radioactivity in the finished product as everything was below their level of detection.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, some 110 km north of Kiev, witnessed one of the worst nuclear accidents in human history on April 26, 1986. After the disaster, a large tract of land around the plant was designated as forbidden zone and ordinary people had been completely prohibited from entering it for decades.
