Relentless: decipher, explain, propose... 'Les Cahiers de Global Chance' Nr 38 - January 2016

After a retrospective overview of the 42 previous releases of the Cahiers de Global Chance which notably addressed issues related to climate change, to energy transition, to renewable energies, and more generally to the relationship between science, culture, power and society, an article proposes a detailed analysis of the Danish energy transition considered as a model of European democratic planning. It describes and comments the long way towards energy planning in Denmark after the first oil crisis, with notably the emergence of renewable energies and co-generation, then the emergence of the climate issue, and the evolution towards an ecologic planning. The Energy Plan 2030 is presented; some specific projects are evoked as well as the planning for phasing out fossil energy. The energy efficiency of the Danish system is outlined, and energy scenarios for 2050 are evoked, based on a massive and sometimes exclusive use of renewable energies, and on the development of smart grids. The next article addresses the return to their country of origin of nuclear wastes produced by the processing of imported used fuels from light water reactors: regulatory framework, assessments of returns, role of the Turpin Commission, situation of foreign fuels processed in La Hague at the end of 2012, situation of the various categories of wastes from imported used fuels. The next article proposes a discussion of available information regarding the recycling of used fuels from EDF PWRs from 1976 to 2012. The last article proposes an assessment of the civilian plutonium stock in France at the end of 2013