TRISO Fuel Performance Modelling with BISON

Evaluating actinide sorption to graphite with regards to TRISO repository performance

Dances with anthrax: wolves (Canis lupus) kill anthrax bacteremic plains bison (Bison bison bison) in southwestern Montana.

Bacillus anthracis, the cause of anthrax, was recovered from two plains bison (Bison bison bison) cows killed by wolves (Canis lupus) in Montana, USA, without associated wolf mortality in July 2010. This bison herd experienced an epizootic in summer 2008, killing ∼ 8% of the herd, the first documented in the region in several decades. No wolf deaths were associated with the 2008 event. Surveill...

Monte Carlo Equilibrium Cycle Analysis of a Deep-burn Mhr Core Charged with Diluted-kernel-based Triso Fuel

Neutronic analyses of TRU deep-burn (DB) have been performed for a 600 MWth MHR (Modular Helium Reactor) by using a continuous energy Monte Carlo code, MCCARD. In order to improve the neutronics and reduce the fuel self-shielding effect, a carbon-diluted kernel is introduced in this work. The double-heterogeneity of TRISO fuels are handed with the aid of the RPT (Reactivity-equivalent Physical ...

Conservation genetics and North American bison (Bison bison).

The many millions of North American bison in the mid-19th century were reduced to near extinction by the middle 1880s. Plains bison, the subspecies found in the United States, were saved from extinction primarily by 5 private ranchers and the survival of a small herd in what is now Yellowstone National Park. This bottleneck resulted in the present-day plains bison population being descended fro...

Fibre type characteristics and postmortem glycolysis of bison (Bison bison bison) Longissimus lumborum

Janz, J. A. M., Aalhus, J. L. and Price, M. A. 2002. Fibre type characteristics and postmortem glycolysis of bison (Bison bison bison) longissimus lumborum. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 82: 259–262. To augment the limited information base, muscle fibre and postmortem glycolytic data from bison longissimus lumborum were compiled. As expected, postmortem glycogen concentration and pH declined while lactate...