Duplex stainless steels used in primary circuit of 2nd generation nuclear power plant endure thermal ageing at service temperatures (285°C-323°C). This leads to an increase of their hardness and to a decrease of their Charpy toughness. The evolution of these properties is due to the phase transformations which occur in ferrite. Even if it is well known that the steel composition plays a role on the mechanical properties evolution (steels with low Ni and Mo contents are less sensitive to thermal ageing), the origin of this difference of behaviour has not been clearly identified yet.In this study, the kinetics of the phase transformations in the ferrite of a duplex stainless steel with low Ni and Mo contents and duplex model alloys with speci...