CLP Senator Nigel Scullion says traditional owners in central Australia have unreasonable fears about a nuclear waste dump bordering their land.

Legislation forcing a dump on the Territory was introduced into the Senate yesterday but is unlikely to be debated until later in the year.

A delegation of traditional owners from central Australia has been in Canberra this week lobbying senators to vote against the Bill.

Senator Scullion says he will meet with the delegation but he is yet to see any evidence that a waste facility is not safe.

"People are still peddling to a fairly naive community, complete evil misinformation to make people so afraid - anybody that suggests that this is at all dangerous to anything it is entirely wrong," he said.

But delegation member William Tilmouth says traditional owners still believe nuclear waste is dangerous and their opposition to the dump is unchanged.

"They are scared of the poisoning of the land, the water areas, the animals that live within that land and bush tucker," he said.