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It’s not the way any startup wants to start up. Just as its initial 1,500 bottles was leaving the distillery, the Chernobyl Spirit Company’s first experimental production was impounded. Kyiv City Prosecutors allege the company was using forged Ukrainian excise stamps, and that stalled the introduction of the first consumer product to come from the nuclear fallout area in 35 years. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or New Chernobyl vodka distilled to almost undetectable level of contaminants Back to video “But,” says Prof. Jim Smith of England’s Portsmouth University, who studied the transfer of radioactivity to crops in Chernobyl before setting up the company with Ukrainian colleagues, “this doesn’t make sense since the bottles are for the U.K. market and are clearly labelled with valid U.K. excise stamps.”

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