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Can the vegetation around a nuclear plant absorb the radioisotopes released from NPPs thereby reduce the spread of contamination?

April 26, 2017contamination npps nuclear plant radioisotopes reduce released spread vegetation

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Can the vegetation around a nuclear plant absorb the radioisotopes released from NPPs thereby reduce the spread of contamination?

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In general, green belt around a NPP is intended to trap particulate gaseous effluents and thereby reduce the spread of contamination. It could help in absorbing tritium also. However, this would not be useful for inert gases like A41, Kr85 and Xe isotopes.