Plants take up and store the radioactive materials in roots or stems. There is some literature on this topic. This process can concentrate some of the radioactive materials and reduce the overall local radioactivity. Soil treatment is another method. This type of handling of radioactivity needs further scientific treatment to determine the type of organisms that might optimize the handling of low-level radioactive wastes.
Many life forms have the ability to perform limited amounts of nuclear processes.
The work of Kevran and Komaki should be considered. There should be more interest in finding ways for on-site handling of radioactive wastes. There should be more government funding made available for optimizing the many findings of biological mechanisms that can handle or transform radioactive substances. There are specific micro-organisms that can exist in quite high levels of radioactivity. However, almost no effort has been made to study the use of life forms to transmute radioactive elements into stable elements.