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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ben Mitchell

UNBELIEVABLE: Scientists donate profits from chernobyl schnapps drinks to ukrainian refugees | History Defined

A company set up by UK academics to create vodka from crops grown near to Chernobyl is donating profits from two new fruit schnapps drinks to refugees from the war in Ukraine.

Professor Jim Smith, of the University of Portsmouth, and Ukrainian colleagues set up a social enterprise in 2019 to show that vodka could be safely produced in the region affected by the nuclear reactor accident in 1986.

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