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L-mode (Low-Confinement Mode)
The baseline confinement regime before the H-mode transition.
L-mode is the lower-confinement regime a plasma sits in below the H-mode power threshold, with no edge barrier. The confinement multiplier H98 is defined relative to H-mode, which roughly doubles L-mode confinement.