Experiments settle debate over how Molybdenum 93 isomer releases stored energy

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
A team at the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and collaborators has identified the dominant mechanism that releases energy stored in the nuclear isomer Molybdenum 93m. Their experiments show that inelastic nuclear scattering, not nuclear excitation by electron capture, governs how this isomer is depleted under the tested conditions. Nuclear isomers are long l