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The federal law was a belated recognition that no rational national policy had previously been established for addressing, and determining answers to, crucial questions relating to the use, processing and disposition of toxic and radioactive nuclear materials, by-products and wastes, being produced in the United States and elsewhere. In the short history of the rapidly advancing technologies of a Nuclear Age, it had become clear that production and use technology had fastly outpaced the technology on nuclear waste handling and disposal. A growing public awareness of actual and potential, known and unknown, dangers relative to nuclear technologies and wastes disposals and repositories, prompted enactment of the 1982 Act. Past actions were being recognized as nothing less than a careless violation of the public trust. The question is asked more than rhetorically.