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FOR the new toll facilities now being installed in the United States, much of the cable is laid underground to secure greater immunity from effects of sleet, snow, and storms. Burying the cable alone is not necessarily sufficient to free it from the effects of lightning damage. Moreover, when lightning damage such as fusing of cable pairs or holes in the sheath does occur, it is not so easy to locate and repair as on aerial cables since excavations may have to be made at a number of points. As a result of this situation, studies have been made of the factors affecting damage of buried cables by lightning, and the remedial measures which have been devised to provide substantial protection in most cases that are encountered are described in an article by E. D. Sunde (Bell Lab. Rec., 21, No. 9; May 1943).
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LIGHTNING PROTECTION OF BURIED CABLE. Nature 152, 424–425 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152424b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152424b0