Does radioactive decay exhibit stimulated emission?

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neanderthalphysics
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Electron energy levels exhibit stimulated emission. Why not nuclear energy levels?
If you have a lump of the same species of radioactive isotopes, why can't the photons emitted from the radioactive decay of one nucleus cause spontaneous emission from other atoms?
I presume it doesn't, because if it did, there would be a geometric effect of radioactive decay, which is not observed.
 

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trurle
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Stimulated gamma emission in nuclear decay do exist but is extremely exotic due small absorbtion cross-sections. Considered most promising Ta-180m was demonstrated to have stimulated gamma emission in laboratory, but the gain is just 0.03 of necessary to make a gamma-laser.
 

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