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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 19 (UPI) –

A former worker at a U.S. nuclear facility was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for trying to sell stolen uranium enrichment equipment.

Roy Lynn Oakley, 67, worked at a building at the facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where enriched uranium for nuclear weapons was produced. He was employed by a contractor, Bechtel.

Oakley entered a guilty plea in January, admitting he tried to sell stolen equipment in 2007 to someone he thought was an agent for a foreign country, the Justice Department said in a news release. The foreign agent was actually an undercover FBI agent.

Oakley told the agent, who purported to be working for France, that he was willing to sell the equipment, including items critical to uranium enrichment, for $200,000.

Once he finishes his sentence, Oakley must spend three years on supervised probation.

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