* 8 October-A tax amnesty brings in over £ 500 million.

Guinea is richly endowed with minerals, possessing an estimated quarter of the world's proven reserves of bauxite, more than 1. 8 billion metric tons ( 2. 0 billion short tons ) of high-grade iron ore, significant diamond and gold deposits, and undetermined quantities of uranium.

Guinea is richly endowed with minerals, possessing an estimated one-third of the world's proven reserves of bauxite, more than 1. 8 billion metric tons ( MT ) ( 2. 0 billion short tons ) of high-grade iron ore, significant diamond and gold deposits, and undetermined quantities of uranium.

It is refined from yellowcake ( U < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sub > 8 </ sub >), then converted to uranium hexafluoride gas ( UF < sub > 6 </ sub >).

For example, producing 1 kg of 5 % enriched uranium requires 11. 8 kg of natural uranium, and leaves about 10. 8 kg of depleted uranium with only 0. 3 % U-235 remaining.

He further wrote: " We didn't learn for years — until the reactor vessel was physically opened — that by the time the plant operator called the NRC at about 8 am, roughly ½ of the uranium fuel had already melted.

Uranium ores in the United States typically range from about 0. 05 to 0. 3 % uranium oxide ( U < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sub > 8 </ sub >).

The milling process commonly yields dry powder-form material consisting of natural uranium, " yellowcake ", which is sold on the uranium market as U < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sub > 8 </ sub >.

Milled uranium oxide, U < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sub > 8 </ sub >, must be converted to uranium hexafluoride, UF < sub > 6 </ sub >, which is the form required by most commercial uranium enrichment facilities currently in use.

Triuranium octaoxide ( U < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sub > 8 </ sub >) is also converted directly to ceramic grade uranium dioxide ( UO < sub > 2 </ sub >) for use in reactors not requiring enriched fuel, such as CANDU.

500 tons natural uranium, 1. 8 tons partially enriched, and 300 tons of medical radioactive materials i. e. caesium for blue glow dirty bombs.

Some early evidence for nuclear fission was the formation of a short-lived radioisotope of barium which was isolated from neutron irradiated uranium, with a half-life of 12. 8 days, are major fission products of uranium.

* " The 8 Most Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Toys " -- page 1 and page 2 at Cracked. com: Includes humorous discussions of some of A. C. Gilbert's more ill-advised products for pre-teens: A glass blowing kit (# 8 ); a molten lead casting kit (# 7 ); a chemistry set (# 3 ) which included potassium permanganate, ammonium nitrate and instructions on how to make explosives ; and an atomic energy lab (# 1 ) which included uranium and radium samples and a coupon for ordering replacement uranium and radium through the mail.

In the years of 1950 – 1989, the plant produced about 98, 681 tonnes of uranium ( mostly as U < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sub > 8 </ sub >) and 1354. 7 tonnes of enriched uranium.

* 1981 – of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.

* 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude 6. 8 and 6. 6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.

The plant was large, covering an area of 2. 4 by 0. 8 km ( 1. 5 by 0. 5 miles ) and was completely self-contained, synthesizing all intermediates as well as the final product, tabun.

These plants belong to 25 genera distributed among 8 plant families.

Founded on 8 Mar 1991 in the basement strongrooms of the former Wertheim store's bank, these having survived the decades largely undamaged, the club finally closed on 16 April 2005 ( it later reopened on 24 May 2007 in a renovated power plant on Köpenicker Straße ).

The overflow of the Pawtuxet River, nearly above flood stage, submerged a sewage plant and closed a five mile ( 8 km ) stretch of Interstate 95.

To this end, in 2004, an $ 8. 3 million Coca-Cola bottling plant opened in Mogadishu, with investors hailing from various constituencies in Somalia.

** Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8, 000 people outright and injures over half a million ( with more later dying from their injuries the death toll is now 23, 000 +) in the worst industrial disaster in history.

Within 8 weeks of sowing, the plant will reach 10 – 15 cm in height, and will grow several centimeters per day under its optimal growth conditions, reaching 70 – 80 cm within fifteen days.

The above-mentioned families are some of the 28 families of scale insects and mealybugs comprising a large group of about 8, 000 described species of plant sucking insects, a few of which produce similar natural products ( e. g., cochineal and crimson ).

In 2007 when SunEdison, a 8. 2 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant near the town of Mosca, Colorado, was built it was the largest solar electric facility in the United States.

The plant grows to between 20 – 50 cm ( 8 – 20 inches ) high and has small feathery leaves on either side of the stem.

An important advantage of biotechnology applied to plant breeding is the speeding up of cultivar release that would otherwise take 8 – 12 years.

Although a plant of the tropics, most cultivars have been developed in temperate climates and are easy to grow in most countries of the world as long as they can enjoy at least 6 – 8 hours average sunlight during the summer, and are moved to a warm location for the winter.

Canna cultivars are grown in most countries, even those with territory above the Arctic Circle, which have short summers but long days, and the rapid growth rate of cannas makes them a feasible gardening plant, as long as they receive 6 – 8 hours of sunlight each day during the growing season and are protected from the cold of winter.

This acid lowers the pH of the infected tissue from around the normal 5. 5 to approximately 2. 8, which is toxic to plant cells.

As of June 2011, Jindal has invested only US $ 20 million on the project due to considerable delay by Bolivian authorities in issuing land for the project and due to inability of the Bolivian government to commit 8 million cubic meters of natural gas per day for the power plant and ore smelting process.

On July 8, 2009 Quallion LLC, which manufactures lithium ion cells and battery packs, announced plans to build a battery manufacturing plant in Palmdale if it won a government grant being offered by the U. S. Department of Energy.

The Glenn L. Martin Company began producing bombers in January 1942, with the plant reaching full-scale production June 8, 1942.

The plant uses open loop cooling, drawing up to 69. 8 million gallons per day of cooling water from the Monongahela River.

Originally known as the Buckhorn Settlement, it was renamed in the late 1800s when Patrick Cudahy purchased 700 acres ( 2. 8 km² ) of land in the Town of Lake, two miles from the Milwaukee city limits, to build his meatpacking plant.

It is one of only a handful of water bodies in the country to contain Holly-leaved Naiad ( Najas marina ), a species on the flowering plant section of the list of endangered species in the British Isles and is protected under Schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

On April 8, he thanked the Grumman Aircraft Corporation plant at Bethpage ( where the F4F Wildcat was made ) for 1, 150 cartons of Lucky Strike cigarettes, a grand total of 230, 000 smokes.

The large truck plant, which had produced 8, 700 trucks in 1996, was shut down indefinitely.

* 1998 – In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Awaji Island with Honshū and costing about $ 3. 8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.

The four scrolls that preserve the relevant sections ( 1QDan < sup > a </ sup >, 4QDan < sup > a </ sup >, 4QDan < sup > b </ sup >, and 4QDan < sup > d </ sup >) all follow the same bilingual nature of Daniel where the book opens in Hebrew, switches to Aramaic at 2: 4b, then reverts back to Hebrew at 8: 1.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

* November 8 – Film Jailhouse Rock opens across the U. S. to reach # 3, and Elvis Presley continues to gain more notoriety.

* February 8 – Sean O ' Casey's Plough and Stars opens at Abbey Theater in Dublin.

* April 5 – In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US $ 3. 8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.

* March 8 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.

* January 29 – Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in San Diego, California, killing 2 faculty members and wounding 8 students.

* May 8 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens and had a massive impact on the Civil rights movement.

* December 8 – First Vatican Council opens.

* February 8 – London and Greenwich Railway opens its first section, the first railway in London, England.

King Ashoka opens the original 8 stupas and divides their relics among many more stupas, probably including the one at Sanchi ( approximate date ).

A small Post Office in east Penge was the location for Part 2 of The Stolen Policeman ( series 8, ep. 11 ) and Series 8 episode 13 opens:

Once this has been done the sun god opens the doors of the tomb in hour 8 and then leaves the sandy island of Sokar by rowing vigorously back into the waters in hour 9.

* March 8 – Bill Graham opens the Fillmore East in an abandoned movie theater in New York City.

The first aria, Widerstehe doch der Sünde, is a da capo aria, which opens with a surprising dissonance and leaves its key of E-flat major open until a cadence in measure 8.

Pink Floyd ´ s " Money " is noted, for its unusual 7 / 4 – 4 / 4 time signature, and the tape loop of money-related sound effects that opens the song. In 1974 a new musical instrument called a Birotron was invented using tape loops from 8 track tapes.

* February 8, 2001: Disney's California Adventure opens to the public.

* The first of four 8. 4 m reflecting telescopes opens in the Very Large Telescope program of the European Southern Observatory at Cerro Paranal in Chile.

The Capitol Cinema in Ottawa opens on November 8

* The second 9. 8 m reflecting telescope opens at Keck Observatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

* March 8, 1904: SP opens the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake, bypassing Promontory, UT for the railroad's mainline.

* October 9-Prairie Bible College opens with 8 students in Three Hills, Alberta

* 8 September-India opens two additional fronts against Pakistan.