Nuclear Detective

• Inspired by Detective Sergei Yankovsky, who investigated the Chernobyl accident.
• "Yankovsky visited other nuclear power plants to gather evidence about previous accidents. Everywhere he went, he was shadowed by officers of the KGB, sent to ensure the continued secrecy of everything his investigation uncovered."
• "Detective Sergei Yankovsky did not attend the trial of the six men he helped indict for their part in the disaster but returned to his regular caseload of murder and corruption.12 In 1995, he was transferred to work at the Ukrainian Rada and began campaigning to have the fifty-seven volumes of investigative materials on the Chernobyl accident returned to Kiev from Moscow. When he left the job eight years later, the boxes of documents and tape recordings remained in the basement of the Russian Supreme Court, still classified top secret. In the spring of 2017, he was sixty-one years old and recuperating from a recent illness on the grounds of a state sanatorium in Kiev. “There are so many things in those files that no one will ever know,” he said."

Root: B-Midnight in Chernobyl