The Federal Government is promising local communities will be consulted about any plan to transport nuclear waste through their towns.
There are reports that thousands of tonnes of waste will be moved through South Australia to a dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory.
A bill to create the dump is before the Senate and could be passed before the end of the year.
Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson said a precise site was yet to be decided.
“You have to get a site, go through a detailed process to determine whether it is appropriate and then consider in consultation with local government and state and territory governments how we might transport our waste to that particular site, he said.
Greens MP Mark Parnell says he expects councils will take up the fight against having any nuclear waste transported through their areas.
“I think what we’ll find as a result of this is a resurgence of the movement in the ‘70s and ‘80s where you found local councils declaring themselves nuclear-free zones,” he said.
“They don’t want this dangerous material going past their kindergartens and schools and hospitals.”
