As another example that the Radiation Network is potentially global, we have a new Monitoring Station in Paraguay, one of the two land-locked nations in South America.  Keep your eye open for a Yellow circle just east of the capital of Asuncion.  Note the nuclear sites (most of them power plants) in neighboring Brazil and Argentina.  More details below:

 

The Paraguay station operates the Inspector, the higher count model built around the 2" pancake GM tube, and his altitude is reported at about 420 feet.  For the time being, he is monitoring indoors inside a brick building with ceramic tile roof, which he indicates is giving a background count 10 CPM higher than outdoors.  His indoor count is averaging 42 CPM which seems about right, or perhaps a little high for the Inspector at that altitude, which bears out his theory.

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