The risk of a superconducting cable exploding

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If the goal of achieving a room temperature superconducting cable were to fully succeed , would there not always be an explosion risk?
In a future supposed “room temperature” superconducting cable that is carrying a large current (I ), would there not always be a risk of explosion if part of the cable accidentally reached a higher critical temperature so that this part suddenly developed a resistance (R) and all the power would heat the cable following the I2 R law?
 
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This is the case for all superconducting cables, not just room temperature superconductors. Superconducting cables, using both low temperature superconductors like Nb-Ti and high temperature copper oxide based superconductors are a reality today. For the reasons you stated, these always have a copper conductor in parallel with the superconductor to carry the current if the superconductor gets "quenched". You can see that in this diagram of a HTSC cable.

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