OPPOSITION is mounting to laws which smooth the way for a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station.

Penny Phillips is a traditional owner of the site, 120km north of Tennant Creek.

She said: ''We have been fighting against this for years and we will keep fighting. We don't want it at Muckaty or anywhere in the NT.''

The National Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2010 requires a waste dump site to be volunteered by the landowners.

The Northern Land Council nominated Muckaty Station to the Federal Government in 2007.

It was the only site nominated.

But a group of traditional owners are disputing the NLC nomination, arguing it was invalid because the land council did not consult all traditional owners.

Elizabeth O'Shea, a lawyer representing the disgruntled traditional owners, says she is confident the court case to have Muckaty Station removed as a possible nuclear-waste dump site will be successful.

Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson welcomed passage of the legislation last week and maintained the government will not act on the site until the court case is resolved.

Central Land Council director David Ross said: ''This legislation is shameful. It subverts processes under the Land Rights Act and is clearly designed to reach the outcome of a dump being located on Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory, whether that's the best place for it or not.''