Scientists: Test West Coast for Fukushima radiation

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19. Actually, they have

There is normal monitoring. Then there was special plume monitoring.

As the article points out, some sampling is already being done:

In Oregon, state park rangers take quarterly samples of surf water and sand at three locations along the coast. The water is analyzed for Cesium 137 and iodine 131. Both of those already exist in the ocean at low levels from nuclear testing decades ago.

The monitoring began in April 2012, when tsunami debris began arriving along the Oregon coast. So far, all of the tests have shown less than "minimum detectable activity," or the least amount that can be measured.
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California regularly samples seawater around the state's nuclear power plants to determine whether the plants are impacting the environment. Those results all are below minimum detectable activity.

Here is more information:
https://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=83397&tid=3622&cid=94989