{"id":230975,"date":"2026-02-10T02:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/physicists-clarify-key-mechanism-behind-energy-release-in-molybdenum-93"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:37:39","slug":"physicists-clarify-key-mechanism-behind-energy-release-in-molybdenum-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/physicists-clarify-key-mechanism-behind-energy-release-in-molybdenum-93","title":{"rendered":"Physicists clarify key mechanism behind energy release in molybdenum-93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-clarify-key-mechanism-behind-energy-release-in-molybdenum-93.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, has identified the dominant physical mechanism responsible for energy release in the nuclear isomer molybdenum-93m (Mo-93m). Using high-precision experiments, the researchers showed that inelastic nuclear scattering\u2014rather than the long-hypothesized nuclear excitation by electron capture (NEEC)\u2014is the primary driver of isomer depletion under their experimental conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/kbf5-6fcl\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> on February 6, provide crucial experimental evidence concerning a long-debated process and shed new light on the controlled release of nuclear energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of physicists from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, has identified the dominant physical mechanism responsible for energy release in the nuclear isomer molybdenum-93m (Mo-93m). Using high-precision experiments, the researchers showed that inelastic nuclear scattering\u2014rather than the long-hypothesized nuclear excitation by electron capture (NEEC)\u2014is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}