Career
During the Soviet-era, he was employed at the nuclear installation known as NII-1011 located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-70. There he worked on miniaturizing detonations, which led to discoveries in nanodiamonds. Ukraine
After the, he moved to Ukraine where he ran a private company called ALIT in Kiev.
Iran
In 1995, he began networking with Iran to develop their nanodiamond industry.
In 2011 the Washington Post released an article alleging that he provided expertise in the development of nuclear detonators for the country at their Physics Research Centre between 1996 and 2002, and cited a report published by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Danilenko denied these claims and in November the IEAE published an annex to their original publication confirming that his assistance in nanodiamond development was purely for civilian purposes.
This claim is false as can be verified with International Atomic Energy Agency, which insists on inspecting the Parchin military base where experiments with high explosives were conducted in a special chamber. Czechoslovakian Republic
He presently operates with a company called NanoGroup in the Czechoslovakian Republic.
