Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/12/20bq-per-kg-strontium-90.html
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“3.6% alcohol. Not great, but not terrible.”
Not exactly a glowing review.
With earthy notes and the taste of hot graphite it has a distinct and lingering burn. The most recommended mixer: iodine.
Suggested pairing: Fukushima rice bowl and a Bikini Atoll tuna roll.
Of course, it will never be completely non-radioactive, as all alcohol has to be slightly radioactive by law:
What’s next, Salmon cannon Vodka? Asking for a friend…
Fallout: “You find a cache of pre-war booze!”
I’m not super keen on all the normalisation efforts going on around Chernobyl.
“Oh, that? That was years ago. Heh, have you seen all the wildlife? Have some vodka! Look at the quaint old buildings!”
So next they’ll have to make some good ol’ Nuka Cola
I’ll have an atomic vodka martini
shaken not stirred.
with a twist of polonium-210
Isn’t there a song by a Russian underground poet from the 1960ies? 1970ies? about an engineer saying that vodka is good against strontium?
I dislike that the area around Chernobyl has become a tourist attraction, but this vodka is a byproduct of legitimate research and not made for a quick buck.
distilled from grains grown in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as part of an experiment to determine the transfer of radiation from soil to crops; so far, the University of Portsmouth researchers behind the project have only made one bottle
Get you some Mentats and NukaCola Victory and you got yourself an atomic cocktail.
The trick is to drink it fast enough that the liver failure gets you before the cancer.