Peter Iredale obituary

My father, Peter Iredale, who has died aged 87, was the last director of the UK Atomic Energy Authority's Harwell laboratory in Oxfordshire, a pioneering institute that housed Europe's first nuclear reactor.

Having joined Harwell in the late 1950s as a scientific officer, Peter progressed through various scientific and leadership positions there, with a focus that eventually expanded to embrace non-nuclear energy technologies such as wind and wave power. At one stage he led the marine and technology support unit at Harwell, and from 1979 to 1984 he chaired the UK wave energy steering committee.