It’s almost three decades since the 1997 comedy The Castle took over our screens, but Peter Dutton’s grand nuclear plan has brought back its iconic line “Tell ’em they’re dreamin’’.

Like it or loathe it, seven nuclear plants – without the requisite technology, no costings nor states on board and a wobbly timetable – simply don’t add up.

Indeed, the federal Coalition’s pitch for pop-up nuclear power plants in five states carries an even more fictitious plot than Darryl Kerrigan and his clan’s fight to protect their castle from the march of development.

Ask almost anyone.

The premiers of Victoria, NSW, Western Australia and Queensland denounced it with a Kerrigan-style ‘suffer in your jocks’ message – along with a reminder that states have a legislative ban on nuclear power in their patch.

In Queensland, Peter Dutton’s party colleague LNP leader David Crisafulli – who is odds-on........

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