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Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out Causes no Supply Security Concerns, but Indicates Need for Region-Wide Cooperation / Christian von Hirschhausen, EU energy policy blog, 7/06/2011http://www.energypolicyblog.com/2011/06/07/germany%E2%80%99s-nuclear-phase-out-causes-no-supply-security-concerns-but-indicates-need-for-region-wide-cooperation/Reacting  to the Fukushima nuclear disaster the German government has decided to  phase out nuclear power in Germany. The seven oldest of the 17 reactors  that were temporarily shutdown in a 3-months “moratorium” will not be  restarted again but closed down for good. The remaining 10 reactors will  be run down within the next decade according to a predefined timetable  that leaves no place for reopening the debate. It is one of the  peculiarities of history that the center-right government of Chancellor  Mrs. Merkel is thus implementing a decision taken under the social  democratic-green coalition a decade ago that it had try to reverse only  six months ago…