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As head of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) Windscale nuclear research laboratories in Cumbria from 1976 until 1987, my father, Harry Lawton, who has died aged 91, was a major figure at an important stage in the development...

Engineer who developed fracking, the revolutionary and controversial technique for extracting oil and gasGeorge Mitchell, who has died aged 94, was one of the elite corps of engineers whose ideas, ingenuity and persistence...

Innovator who first used hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas changed the energy landscape late in his lifeGeorge Phydias Mitchell, a petroleum engineer who transformed the natural gas industry by using hydraulic...

Ian Breach and I covered the 100-day-long Windscale inquiry into nuclear waste in Cumbria. Ian's grasp of the subject was as formidable as his capacity for the odd glass at the end, and sometimes at the beginning, of a long...

Ian Breach conducted the funeral service for my wife, Hetty, in Cockermouth, both at the graveside at the natural burial ground and at the wake afterwards...

Decades-long fight to save family's land from mountaintop mining drew the praise of politicians and activists alikeLarry Gibson, who turned a lonely vigil to save a remote West Virginia mountain from coal mining into a national...

Distinguished electrochemist whose claims for cold fusion have yet to find widespread acceptanceAccounts of the cold fusion claims of the Czech-born electrochemist Martin Fleischmann, who has died aged 85, and his American-French...

I was appointed press officer to Alex Eadie (obituary, 2 February) in 1974 when he became an energy minister. As a green journalist-cum-civil-servant from the south, I knew about the coal industry only what I read in the...

My former colleague Derrik Littler, a pioneer of nuclear power, has died aged 92. In New Mexico, in July 1945, Derrik witnessed the world's first atomic bomb explosion and was one of the first members of the team to go up...

Hugh Richards, an ardent anti-nuclear activist, who has died from bone marrow cancer aged 65, had a gentle, understated manner that masked fierce determination and a wonderful dry wit.