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Successful Testing Paves the Way for Commercial Superconductor Power Cables (19/07/2007)
American Superconductor Corporation and Nexans have announced the successful testing of the world’s first power transmission cable made with second generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire. The cable was produced by Nexans utilizing AMSC’s proprietary 2G HTS wire known as “344 superconductors.” This 30-meter-long, transmission-voltage cable was successfully tested at a Nexans high-voltage facility in Hannover, Germany. Operated at 138,000 volts (138kV), the cable contained ... [more]
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