Wood River Junction is commonly considered by locals to be one of the coldest locations in the state of Rhode Island, due to its low-lying and flat geography.

The village was the site of Wood River Junction station, originally known as Richmond Switch.

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad took over operation of the Branch in 1892 and eventually abandoned it on August 8, 1947.

[3] This facility was designed to recover highly enriched uranium from scrap material left over from fuel element production.

Tests performed on his wedding ring yielded an estimate of 700 rem (7 sieverts) to that individual finger.

Ninety minutes later, a second excursion happened when a plant manager returned to the building and turned off the agitator, exposing himself and another administrator to doses of up to 100 rad (1 sievert) without apparent ill effect.