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SUPERCONDUCTORS: AMSC Delivers Wire, Gets Cable Project.

High Tech Ceramics News, June, 2003

American Superconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: AMSC), a leading electricity solutions company, has announced its first delivery of second-generation (2G), high-temperature superconductor (HTS) wire. The 2G wire was shipped to Ultera, a joint venture between two of the world's leading wire and cable companies, Southwire Co. and nkt cables, which will collaborate with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to fabricate and test a multi-wire HTS cable conductor, the central, current-carrying component in power transmission cables. The Ultera-ORNL team plans to present the results of tests of the cable conductor, which are expected to demonstrate performance at commercial electrical current levels, at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Superconductivity Peer Review meeting at the end of...

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