Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been heckled by protesters after holding a meeting in a WA town where he plans to build a nuclear power station.

Mr Dutton is in WA for a Liberal party conference and on Friday visited the South West town of Collie – one of seven places nationwide where a power station could be based under the Coalition's nuclear policy.

While his office would not confirm the visit with journalists, the opposition leader spent Friday morning meeting with representatives from the local council in Collie.

A small group of protesters opposed to the nuclear power station plan gathered outside the building where the meeting was held, holding an Indigenous flag.

When Mr Dutton emerged from the meeting, they yelled 'if you want to come and work on our land, come and talk to us."

"We had a great meeting with the local council, they were very obliging, very happy to have that conversation," he told reporters as he walked to his waiting car.

He did not respond to questions about why it was a private meeting or why he didn't speak with the waiting group.

"Why do you want to destroy our land? Come and talk to the traditional owners. We're peaceful people," they yelled at Mr Dutton as his car drove off.

'Majority' support nuclear in Collie: Dutton

Speaking in Busselton later in the day, Mr Dutton said there was "well and truly" majority support for the Collie nuclear proposal.

Mr Dutton said he didn't want to meet with local Indigenous leaders.

"I accept the view of the few people who were there — I think there were half a dozen people that were there protesting," he said.

"I accept that they don't support nuclear power, that's their right in a democracy. But the vast majority of people do I believe in the local community."

WA Labor minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said Mr Dutton had "snuck" into Collie.

"If Peter Dutton was proud of his nuclear plan he'd be very happy to talk about it openly in Collie," she said.

Mr Dutton said any suggestion he "hid" from speaking to residents in Collie was "silly".

“We didn't, of course. We met with the shire president, we met with the councillors who represent the local community."

He said a nuclear plant would create "literally thousands" of jobs in Collie but could not say how much it would cost or when it would be built.

Mr Dutton accused the ABC of having an "ideological position" against nuclear power.

No definitive answers: shire president

Collie shire president Ian Miffling said he was pleased Mr Dutton had honoured the council's request for an in-person meeting.

"We said 'let Canberra come to Collie, and that's exactly what Peter Dutton has done," he told ABC Regional Drive.

"He was talking generally about his policy."

Mr Miffling said representatives from Nuclear for Australia were also present at the meeting and took questions from councillors.

"There were questions around safety, waste management and the water issues," he said.

"There were no definitive answers on that."

Mr Miffling said there would be a gap between the Coalition's plan of building of a small nuclear reactor in Collie towards the end of next decade, and the WA government's plan to phase out coal mining and processing in town by 2030.

He said that would leave a gap in the local workforce.

"That was one of the questions posed at [Mr Dutton]," Mr Miffling said.

Asked to comment of Mr Dutton’s suggestion for “majority support” in Collie for the nuclear proposal, he said local opinion remained mixed.

He said reactions he had observed ranged from open-mindedness, to hostility, to many positions in between.

“There’s for, there’s against, and I wouldn’t say one is in the majority or not,” Mr Miffling said.

Pro-nuclear event in Collie

One of the protesters who gathered in Collie was Indigenous woman Stevie Anderson, who is against nuclear power and said she had lived in Collie since 1999.

She claims she was blocked from entering a pro-nuclear event in Collie on Thursday night despite registering in advance.

The meeting was held by nuclear advocacy organisation Nuclear For Australia and included an expert panel.

"I was rejected from the front door, I was told to get off from security," she said.

"Their reason was that maybe I was there to interrupt the consultation but I explained that I was a local, I was there to listen.

"I'm here on behalf of the elders and I was denied to actually go in with everyone else – and I felt really rejected."

She told the ABC locals are concerned about the prospect of a nuclear power plant being built near the town.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Nuclear for Australia said more than 200 people joined the meeting.

"We became aware of dozens of anti-nuclear protesters that had registered to attend the event with the intent to disrupt proceedings.

"This included known anti-nuclear protesters who had travelled over two hours from Perth and beyond to disrupt the event.

"We always take the security and amenity of the public, our team and our volunteers seriously."

Inside the briefing

Chris Martin has lived in Collie for 40 years and did attend the pro-nuclear meeting.

He told the ABC he had questions about the costings and time frames of the Coalition's plans, but said he wasn't given the opportunity to ask them.

"It was disturbing that they weren't taking questions from the floor, it was also disturbing that they were not allowing some people who wanted to be at that meeting, that they excluded people from coming into the hall."

Nuclear for Australia said it did indeed give attendees the opportunity to answer questions and over two thirds of the attendees were from the local area.