Australia's largest producer of organic chicken is keeping an open mind about the possibility of the country's first nuclear waste dump being located nearby. Listen Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds 2 m 22 s Listen Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Inglewood Farms owner Andrew Youngberry discusses the inclusion of Inglewood in a shortlist of sites nominated to store nuclear waste. ( Jodie Gunders ) Download 1.1 MB

A site near the southern Queensland town of Inglewood is one of six shortlisted by the Federal Government as a possible site to store low-to-intermediate level nuclear waste.

Andrew Youngberry, who owns the family-run Inglewood Farms around 20 kilometres from the proposed site at Oman Ama, was surprised by the inclusion of Inglewood on the shortlist.

"I would think that it should be something that would be considered out where there is less population, in that it's not very far from Inglewood town and not that far from Warwick town," he said.

But Mr Youngberry said at this stage, he was not concerned about his farm's organic certification.

"I wouldn't think that it would affect our certification, in that this is from my understanding, quite low-grade nuclear waste and I'm sure it will be done very well.

"Obviously we'd like to know a lot more about what the proposal is," Mr Youngberry said.

He said he would like more information about security for the proposed site and how nuclear waste would be transported there.

But his main concern was that the water table be protected.

"That to me is one of the key elements of any of these things, whether we're talking coal seam gas or nuclear waste or anything.

"We just have to protect the precious water resource.

"After all we are the nation that is the driest continent on earth, and we really don't have the option to waste water resources by polluting them," Mr Youngberry said.