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the average loss of life expectancy in days due to various causes is as follows:

CauseDaysComments
Being unmarried-male 3500 - Yep, that's right...a married male can expect to live some 10 years longer than an unmarried male. Hmmm...
Cigarette smoking-male 2250
Heart disease 2100
Being unmarried-female 1600
Being 30% overweight 1300
Being a coal miner 1100
Cancer 980
20% overweight 900
Cigarette smoking-female 800
Stroke 520
Dangerous job-accidents 300
Pipe smoking 220
Increasing food intake 100 cal/day 210
Motor vehicle accidents 207 - Keep looking. Nuclear has to be here somewhere.
Alcohol (U.S. average) 130
Accidents in home 95
Suicide 95
Being murdered (homicide) 90
Legal drug misuse 90
Average job - accidents 74
Drowning 41
Job with radiation exposure 40
Falls 39
Accidents to pedestrians 37
Safest jobs-accidents 30
Fire-burns 27
Generation of energy 24
Illicit drugs (U.S. average) 18
Firearms accidents 11
Natural radiation (BEIR) 8
Medical x rays 6
Coffee 6
Oral contraceptives 5
All catastrophes combined 3.5
Diet drinks 2
Reactor accidents-UCS 2* - Finally!!! Way down at the bottom!
Reactor accidents-Rasmussen Report 0.02* - So why is nuclear so scary for so many people?
Radiation from nuclear industry 0.02*
Source: Norman J. McCormick, Reliability and Risk Analysis, Academic Press, 1981, ISBN 0-12-482360-2, Table 16.8. McCormick extracted the information from B. L. Cohen and I-S. Lee, Heuhh Phys. 36, 707 (1979).
* These items assume that all United States power is nuclear. UCS is Union of Concerned Scientists, a prominent group of nuclear critics.