This report contains the description of a procedure for selecting scenarios that are potentially important to the isolation of high-level radioactive wastes in deiep geologic formations. In this report, the term scenario is used tolepresent a set of naturally occurring and/or humaninduced conditions that represent realistic future states of the repository, geologic systems, and ground-water flow systems that might affect the release and transport of radionuclides from the repository to humans.The scenario selection procedure discussed in this report is demonstrated by applying it to the analysis of a hypothetical waste disposal site containing a bedded-salt formation as the host medium for the repository. A final set of 12 scenarios is selected for this site.
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