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This paper presents the results of a study on water treeing in extruded insulation of cables. We show our in service experience for medium, high and extra high voltage polyethylene insulated cables and the results of investigations undertaken on a very small number of broken down cables, all failures owing to water treeing.
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Favrie et al. (1980) studied this question.
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