According to the IEEE Buff Book, "A power cable must be protected from overheating due to excessive short-circuit current flowing in its conductor," which may damage or destroy the insulation. It also ...
IN a paper entitled “Eddy Current Losses in Single-Conductor Paper-Insulated Lead-Covered Un-armoured Cables of a Single-Phase System“(J. Inst. Elec. Eng., 89, Pt. 2, No. 12 ; December 1942), Dr. A. H ...