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Studies have been made on porous current leads having a superconductor at the cold end. Estimates are made of the heat leak along the current lead in relation to the gas flow rate and current load.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 582–587, October, 1984.
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Vasil'ev, L.L., Bobrova, G.I., Dragun, L.A. et al. Gas-cooled compound porous current leads for cryogenic cables. Journal of Engineering Physics 47, 1166–1169 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869911
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