Discussion Points of Radiation Protection for NORM Based on the IAEA Webinar “Holistic Approach to NORM Management”

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) organized an online meeting on July 15, 2021, entitled ʻHolistic Approach to NORM Management Webinar,ʼ which shared the perspectives based on a workshop held on May 2021 in Brazil assessing the member stateʼs infrastructures in managing Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM), devised valuable perspectives by providing a roadmap on the integrated system. The panelists, and/or international experts who supported the workshop summarized new NORM perspectives in the webinar. As the young participants to the webinar under the invitation of Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA, Japan) and IAEA; the authors, in this report summarized the webinar contents on eight presentations, discussions, important/unique points (strong suggestions, new proposals, potential solutions involving IAEA critical role, countrywide strategic examples, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adoption, new international standards following political feasibility, and waste handlings on NORM management) along with sharing opinions on the webinar. ʻHow holistic approach is applicable in countries with inappropriate infrastructure,ʼ ʻharmonization,ʼ and ʻfuture decommissioning perspectives in regions which lacked disposal optionʼ etc. were mainly discussed in the webinar, also showed in this report based on the authorʼs opinion exchanges from the viewpoint of young researchers in the field of radiation protection.