Hi,

I just got my sensor, seems good so far.

I had a though, I live ~25km from a Nuclear Power Plant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Nuclear_Power_Plant)

Is it expected that the reading would be higher?

Interesting question. Why don't you get the signature graph going in your posts, like I have in mine, so you can make a rough comparison with graphs from detectors like mine that are not near a reactor. In Community Preferences in the signature box I have:

{img}http://radioactiveathome.org/scripts/graph/draw.php?hostid=1016&ntrickles=30{/img}

Use [] instead of {} and substitute your own host ID for 1016. I forget exactly what the 30 does.

I would guess that at 25 miles you won't notice much of a difference unless the reactor is leaking radiation.

There is another style of graph available from this website too, I forget where, it might be more meaningful than the type in my sig.

Aha! From your post in Number Crunching I see you do have the graph setup, it's just not in your post in this thread.
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Seem like not so far, my reading seem ver close to everyone else.

This experiment will answer these sort of questions.

If the sensor is portiable I could drive up closer and see if it changes.
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Can I plug it in my laptop and get readings with the power from USB?

Or even portable USB power source.
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