Earthquakes and nuclear reactors don't mix, Coalition concedes

Muswellbrook residents clean-up after last month's earthquake (L) and an artist's impression of what a future nuclear power plant could look like.

Muswellbrook would be taken off a list of preferred sites to host a nuclear power station if the risk of earthquakes made it unsafe, the Coalition has conceded.

It came as Coalition Leader Peter Dutton argued that nuclear power could be a companion to renewables rather than a competitor.