About 100 people turned out last night in Tennant Creek to hear and voice concerns about the proposed nuclear radioactive waste dump at Muckaty Station.

The issue has pitted the Federal Government against its Territory brothers and split Traditional Owners living on the station.

But what would a dump mean for pastoralists in the Barkly who have successfully marketed their beef as clean and green?

Henry Burke runs Brunette Downs, 360 kilometres north east of Tennant Creek, and he's the deputy chair of the Tennant Creek branch of NT Cattleman's Association.

While he wasn't at the meeting in Tennant Creek, he feels there is a need for more information and a proper consultation process.

"As an industry view, we need to be fully engaged in the process and we need to be kept up to speed with how and when this is taking place."

Mr Burke personally feels that the people who are directly involved in making the decision should be informed of all the details and implications of what's being proposed.

"We need to make sure what the safety process is around this. Why is it that it's got to be stuck out in the middle of the Northern Territory at Muckaty Station? What's dangerous about it?

"There seems to be a whole lot of reasons and issues for the Government people to be sticking it out in the middle of nowhere without a lot of consultation."

In this report: Henry Burke, Brunette Downs Station