To regulate:

To lay down the law. Begin controlling shit. Often By physical force/restraint.

"If he pulls that shit again, I'm gunna have to REGULATE that muh-fucka."

Urban Dictionary  

NRC Revising Approach to Japan Lessons-Learned Recommendations.

The NRC blog says they have the opportunity to improve implementation of the goals of the Japan Near-Term Task Force recommendations.Congress added specific requirements for the NRC to act “as expeditiously as possible” on these recommendations dealing with earthquakes and flooding. What offers the NRC this opportunity for improved implementation?

Last month the Nuclear Energy Institute laid out the nuclear power industry’s “FLEX” approach to addressing several recommendations. “FLEX” would create a diverse, flexible set of strategies for counteracting the effects of severe natural events that could exceed a plant’s design limits.

With care and great consideration the NEI has thoughtfully laid out a “flexible” (and probably financially painless) strategy for the nuclear power industries own regulation.

The NRC staff believes this approach is a reasonable starting point, although more work is needed on defining these strategies. We also must ensure the NRC can inspect how plants put the strategies in place and that we can hold plants accountable for keeping those strategies ready and available.

I can’t see it but hopefully, for safety sake there is some aggressive regulatory threat of enforcement here in plain sight. However speedy implementation looks unlikely as the NRC just wagged their bureaucratic tail at the thought of a little industry “FLEX” and endless discussion.