Roy Lynn Oakley, 67, worked for Bechtel Jacobs, a contractor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a US nuclear research facility created in the 1940s to develop a nuclear bomb.
Mr Oakley was charged with taking US government data and hardware and agreeing to pass it to another person.
ABC television said he was arrested trying to sell it to an undercover agent.
It was unclear how the low-level contract worker, who did maintenance work and escorted visitors at the Oak Ridge National lab in Knoxville, Tennessee, managed to access the classified documents.
Bechtel Jacobs is the Department of Energy's prime environmental management contractor at East Tennessee Technology Park.
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