This anecdote may be slightly off the original topic, but it illustrates how hard it is to get a power plant up and running from a "cold" plant (black plant in the examples above).
When I was in the US Navy on a destroyer, we were running BECCE drills (Basic Engineering Casualty Control Exercises), which were designed to simulate battle damage and train us how to respond to keep our ship either in the fight, or at least afloat.
The exercise we were training on was losing our after fire and engine rooms (holes), which meant we had to cross connect the forward fire & engine rooms to allow us to get steam back to the after engine room so it could turn the screw (propeller) and generate electricity.
The captain dropped a live grenade off of the starboard bridge wing to simulate a torpedo hit in the forward fire room. We were supposed to do simulated casualty control for flooding, except we never got the chance. The grenade went off directly beside the forward fire room's main fuel feed pump, knocking it offline, in moments we lost fires in the forward fire room (and the after fire room was already "cold" for the BECCE drill), so steam pressure dropped quickly. Since both engine rooms were cross connected to the forward fire room, we quickly expended all our steam, and both the drive gears and the ship's turbine generators all went off line, the whole ship went dark, which automatically caused the emergency diesels to start up, but it's minutes before they've settle down and can provide consistent electricity, and then only to emergency circuits (fire pumps, fuel feed pumps, forced air draft blowers, ventilators in the holes, etc.).
Once you lose steam in a fire room, you have literally minutes of sufficient heat to do a "hot start", otherwise you end up having to do a cold start. A true cold start takes 72 hours on this type of ship. Well, with no fuel pump (it was mechanically driven), and no electricity to run the auxiliary for several minutes, as well as the forced air draft, they quickly ran out of time. 479
The emergency generators kicked in almost immediately (I know because my station was at the forward emergency generator, and it started automatically, scaring the crap out of us because that wasn't part of the drill, and we weren't expecting it). Imagine being inside a tight metal box with a giant diesel generator inside it...
We had an entire ship full of trained engineers, who knew our plants inside and out, and we took hours and hours to get the plant restarted. We knew what had happened, and what needed to be fixed, but still we were dead in the water for most of an afternoon and into the evening before we got steam back up so we could get underway. We even had other ships of the same class in close proximity so we could get parts or assistance if needed.
Imagine what <PERSON> has to learn, figure out, configure, appropriate, fix, just to be able to think about starting the plant. Our plant was a fairly simple #2 diesel fired steam boilers, basically, if you have enough electricity to run the auxiliary fuel pump, forced draft blower, and ventilation, you can start it with a butane lighter and some knowhow.
I've gone through naval reactors training in the USN, it took us six months of intensive training to get to the point where we knew enough to actually be taught on a real reactor (another six months). It's quite unlikely that <PERSON>'s ever going to get his plant running. 479