Identified: Power Grid Links Vulnerable to Cascading Failures (VIDEO)

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Animation of simulated cascades and the vulnerability map of the North American power-grid network. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 17 November 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Yang at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and colleagues was titled, "Small vulnerable sets determine large network cascades in power grids."

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Takashi Nishikawa and Adilson E. Motter

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