[4:25 p.m. ET Wednesday, 5:25 a.m. Thursday in Tokyo] A spent fuel pool at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is dry, resulting in "extremely high" radiation levels, the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday.
[4:15 p.m. ET Wednesday, 5:15 a.m. Thursday in Tokyo] The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day's trading session 241 points lower amid concerns about the U.S. economy and the crisis in Japan.
[3:01 p.m. ET Wednesday, 4:01 a.m. Thursday in Tokyo] Concerned about potential radiation exposure, the U.S. military will not allow troops to get within 50 miles of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Col. David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, says.
Before Wednesday, the United States had urged American citizens in Japan to follow the recommendations of the Japanese government. The new U.S. recommendation "suggests that the advice the Japanese government is giving based on the information it has is different than the advice we'd be giving if this incident happened in the United States," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.
Read more at news.blogs.cnn.com[2:10 p.m. ET Wednesday, 3:10 a.m. Thursday in Tokyo] The yen reached a nearly 16-year high against the U.S. dollar in trading Wednesday, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported. Traders are speculating that Japanese companies will sell off assets to acquire yen that will be needed for rebuilding and recovery, the news agency said. At one point the yen was trading at 79.98 to the dollar, a figure not seen since April 1995.
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