The Member for Grey, Rowan Ramsey, says the constant relocation of 10,000 barrels of radioactive waste highlights state and Federal Government indecision.

The barrels, currently stored in an old aircraft hanger in the Woomera Prohibited Area, will be moved to another temporary storage facility a few kilometres away while the Federal Government decides where to build a permanent facility.

Mr Ramsey says Premier Mike Rann is partly to blame for opposing a facility in South Australia almost five years ago.

"Every time we shift it around, the longer it remains exposed to the outside air," he said.

"If we constructed a proper low-level repository at the time, all this waste would be held in a safe position now, so I think it's a glaring example of political opportunism gone mad and now, as a consequence, the problem's not been solved and it's just going on and on.

"Here we are, about five years later with still no decisions made by the Federal Government, they're trying to establish a repository in [the] Northern Territory now, having the same kind of local resistance. It needs to be done, it needs to be got out of hospital basements and it's being held up because of these silly, silly political shots really."