In the coming months, after a large door is created in the north wall facing the cryoplant, the ITER Organization will use the space previously occupied by the
coil winding table and adjacent work station to proceed with
thermal shield repairs. Later this year, in September, a second partial handover will extend the Organization's "exclusive area" to about half of the facility's space. In this newly acquired territory, ITER will set up the
port plug test facility, whose components will arrive from Russia. By mid-2024, after the final coils PF4 and PF3 have been delivered and all coil-related activity has ended, a final handover will give the ITER Organization complete ownership of the building. At the far end, where the concrete slab can withstand pressures on the order of 42 tonnes per square metre, ITER will conduct
divertor cassette assembly operations and other heavy-duty activities.