the week as the seven nuclear reactors that have been shuttered after the Japan nuclear emergency are widely expected to stay closed for good. Peakload prices for delivery in 2012 in bilateral over-the-counter trade rose around EUR2 a megawatt-hour to between EUR73.15/MWh and EUR73.35/MWh. On the Germany-based European Energy Exchange baseload for delivery in 2012 rose to EUR60.05/MWh, up around 1% on the day from EUR59.46/MWh. The 2012 baseload contract has gained nearly 13% since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear disaster in Japan. In 2010, nuclear reactors accounted for around 23% of Germany's power production, making them the second-largest contributor to overall output behind lignite-fired power plants. The government said earlier Monday that it will end the use of nuclear energy by 2022 at the very latest. The country's seven oldest nuclearrals, who have defected from Muammar al-Qaddafi's regime appealed to their fellow officers Monday to join the revolt to hasten the end of Qaddafi's 40-year rule. Italian Foreign Ministry officials presented the generals, two colonels and a major to reporters in Rome three days after they fled Libya. One of the officers, Gen. Melud Massoud Halasa, estimated that Qaddafi's military forces are now "only 20 percent as effective" as what they were before the revolt broke out in mid-February, and that "not more than 10" generals remain loyal to Qaddafi. Former Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgam, who now backs the anti-Qaddafi rebels, told the news conference that the eight officers are "part of 120 officials who left and abandoned Qaddafi and are now out of Libya." Italy, Libya's former colonial ruler, long had close economic and diplomatic ties with Tripoli, but Rome was among the first Western nations to break with the regime and establish formal relations with the Libyan National Transitional Council, that is representing anti-Qaddafi forces. Gen. On Ali On read an appeal to fellow army officers and top police and security officials "in the name of the martyrs who have fallen in the defense of freedom to have the courage" to abandon the regime. The general, wearing st