CHERNOBYL VODKA

A team of British scientists have created a vodka using grain and water from the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The vodka, called Atomik, is the very first consumer product to come out of the nuclear disaster site, and so far there’s only one bottle of it. UK professor Jim Smith, of the University of Portsmouth, and his team worked on it for several years before releasing the very first bottle this week. The biggest question they keep getting, obviously, is whether the alcohol is safe to consume. Smith claims Atomik vodka is no more radioactive than any other vodka, because when you distill something, impurities stay in the waste product. They used rye that was slightly contaminated and water from the Chernobyl aquifer and distilled it. The liquor was tested at a radio-analytical laboratory, to see if they could find any radioactivity and, they claim, they couldn’t find anything.
* Only one bottle? Don’t everybody grab for it at once.
* So you can destroy your liver the pre-atomic way – by drinking.
* Besides, drinking radiated vodka may cause you to actually grow a second liver, so there’s that.
* Any new source of vodka is good news for the Russians.
* Don’t scientists in Britain have any REAL work to do?