A new cocktail, Atom Sour, has been created in Ukraine using Chornobyl apples and mugwort.<\/p>\n
At its heart is CHORNOBYL RAY, a distilled apple spirit made from the 2022 harvest of apples grown in liberated orchards of the Chornobyl Zone, which was occupied by russian forces and later returned to Ukrainian control.<\/p>\n
The spirit is radiologically safe for consumption in accordance with the hygiene standards of Ukraine’s Ministry of Health. This has been confirmed through laboratory testing and an expert assessment by the State Institution \u201cNational Research Center for Radiation Medicine\u201d of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine. According to the laboratory report, no radionuclides were detected in the product; their concentration was below the sensitivity threshold of the measurement method.<\/p>\n
As a result, CHORNOBYL RAY stands as proof of the resilience of Ukraine’s land and its ability to recover time and again from moscow’s radioactive consequences.<\/p>\n
The first recovery came after 1986, when the fourth reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant was destroyed. The disaster was a product of the Soviet system itself – a system in which a fundamentally unsafe reactor could remain in operation, while the plant’s own operators were never informed about its undocumented design characteristics.<\/p>\n
The second time was in 2022, when russian forces occupied the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and once again increased radiation levels in an area that had been recovering for decades after the 1986 disaster. Yet Ukrainian nature revived once again. The apple trees blossomed and bore fruit. It is from these liberated apples that CHORNOBYL RAY was created – the base of the Atom Sour cocktail.<\/p>\n