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The H98 Confinement Factor
A number expressing confinement relative to the standard H-mode scaling.
H98 compares a plasma's energy confinement to the ITER IPB98(y,2) scaling; H98 = 1 is standard H-mode. HYPERION's assumption of H98 = 1.0 is deliberately at standard performance, not beyond it.