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Tom Quirk
Tom Quirk is a nuclear physicist and former board member of the Institute of Public Affairs, an Australian conservative think-tank for which he has written numerous articles and papers and provided comments to the media. Quirk is an advocate for the expansion of Australia's role in the nuclear fuel chain and has expressed support for the development of uranium enrichment capacity, spent fuel reprocessing and future storage of nuclear waste in Australia. He has also challenged the work of anti-nuclear activist, Helen Caldicott. Quirk contributed a chapter entitled ''Opportunities in the nuclear fuel cycle'' to the 2011 policy perspective publication ''Australia's nuclear options'' for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA).〔 Between 2006 and 2011, Quirk wrote numerous articles for the website ''Online Opinion'', including criticisms of wind power and renewable energy and pieces promoting nuclear power. == Career == Quirk has worked for resources company, CRA (now known as Rio Tinto). He has also worked in the United States at Fermilab, the universities of Chicago and Harvard and at CERN in Europe. He was an early director of Biota, a company which developed an influenza drug. He has held several positions in utilities, electricity and transport industries including a founding directorship of the Victorian Power Exchange. Quirk was Deputy Chairman of VENCorp, which managed the transmission and wholesale natural gas market and system planning for the electricity market in Victoria, Australia. He is also a former Chairman of Victrack, the owner of the state's railway assets.〔 Quirk also worked for James D. Wolfensohn in a venture capital fund based in New York.
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