"....Duke CEO Lynn Good has said repeatedly that Charlotte-based Duke (NUSE:DUK) wants to keep open the possibility of replacing retiring nuclear plants with new nuclear construction. The H.B. Robinson and Oconee nuclear plants are due to retire starting in 2030.. ...But at the conference, Good conceded that new nuclear construction may not be feasible. "If we can't replace it and we're facing a world where carbon is increasingly important, we'll be replacing it with gas," she said." The Lee plant would be built at a site near Gaffney, S.C.