[en] we believe that concrete progress is being made in the U.K. towards putting in place a -long-term solution for the management of radioactive waste. The challenge now though will be to sustain the momentum and to continue to work to establish and maintain the requisite legitimacy across the board. We believe that this may only be done by going beyond y g g he traditional technical and scientific considerations and specifically addressing the ethical and social dimensions of the problem. (author)