Oxide dispersion-strengthened steels are still being regarded as suitable choices for components in advanced nuclear power plants. It is important, then, to study how permanent overall deformation (plastic strain) evolves along time, when the material is stressed (loaded) at high temperature and suddenly unloaded, simulating a condition of shut-down of a reactor due to maintenance, refuelling or emergency stop. The proposal aims at the investigation of plastic strain recovery in a steel whose microstructure has a strong preferential orientation (texture), in the period following the removal of applied stress.