Following a tragic fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestall in 1967, the United States Navy realized that toxic fumes and dense smoke from burning PVC jacketed cables created a dangerous firefighting environment within the confines of a ship [19]. In response to this, the US Navy developed a new specification for a family of low smoke, low toxicity shipboard cables. The conductors were insulated with polyolefins and jacketed with polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF-Kynar™) [9]. Both of these materials were crosslinked with EB processing.