# Nuclide record mo-99 (isotope). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/mo-99/>
  a schema:ChemicalSubstance ;
  nuclide:kind "isotope" ;
  schema:identifier "mo-99" ;
  schema:name "Molybdenum-99"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "99Mo"@en, "Mo-99"@en ;
  schema:description "The parent isotope shipped worldwide to make technetium-99m, the gamma-ray tracer used in the majority of nuclear medicine scans. It is made in a handful of ageing research reactors, and when one breaks down, scans get delayed or cancelled."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/mo-99/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2025-10/7743_medical_radioisotopes_supply_rev.pdf>, <https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2023-10/nea_ndc_r_2023_1.pdf>, <https://www.oecd-nea.org/med-radio/reports/MO-99.pdf> ;
  nuclide:status "established" ;
  nuclide:tag "beta emitter", "generator parent", "reactor supply chain", "ageing infrastructure" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/tc-99m/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/technetium-sulfur-colloid/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/tilmanocept-tc99m/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/research-reactor-isotope-production/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radionuclide-generators-kits/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/therapy-isotope-supply-chain/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/spect/> ;
  nuclide:companies <https://nuclide.cc/companies/curium/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/ire/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/ansto/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/ntp-radioisotopes/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/northstar-medical-radioisotopes/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/nordion/> .