Sue Ion

**Dame Susan Elizabeth Ion** (/ˈi.ɒn/;  née **Burrows**; an haife ta 3 Fabrairu 1955) injiniya ce ta Burtaniya  kuma ƙwararren mai ba da shawara kan masana'antar makamashin nukiliya.    

An zabi Ion a matsayin memba na Kwalejin Injiniya ta Kasa a shekarar 2012 don gudummawa ga ci gaban man fetur na nukiliya.

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haife ta ne a ranar 3 ga Fabrairu 1955 a Cumbria,  'yar Lawrence James Burrows ce, jami'in tsarawa na British Rail, da Doris Burrows (née Cherry), sakatariya. 

Ion ta yi karatu a makarantar Penwortham Girls Grammar School kusa da Preston, Lancashire a wannan shekarar da Nancy Rothwell .  Yayinda take budurwa, tana jin daɗin kimiyya, wanda iyayenta suka karfafa ta hanyar barin ta yi gwaje-gwaje na sunadarai a cikin kicin iyali.

A makaranta, ta dauki matsayin jagora a matsayin Shugaba daga 1972 zuwa 1973 kuma mataimakiyar jagorar ƙungiyar mawaƙa. A shekara ta 16, Ion ta lashe littafi game da makamashi na atomatik a matsayin kyauta ga matakan O-matakanta a kimiyya, wanda ya taimaka mata ta yi sha'awar batun. Ta tuna, "Lokacin da nake makaranta ... ya bambanta sosai. An ba ku kowane ƙarfafawa da zai yiwu don yin batutuwan kimiyya idan kuna da sha'awar su".  

Ion ta ci gaba da karatun Kimiyya ta Kayan aiki a Kwalejin Imperial ta London,  inda ta sami digiri na farko a shekara ta 1976,  sannan kuma ta sami PhD a fannin Kayan Kayan Kimiyyar Kayan Kudancin Kayan Kadan a shekara ta 1979, wanda FJ Humphreys da SH White suka kula da shi.  

Ta koyar a wata makarantar da ke cikin gari a Landan yayin kammala digirin digirin ta kuma ta yi amfani da kayan aiki daga dakunan gwaje-gwaje na kwaleji a cikin darussanta don taimakawa dalibai su zama masu sha'awar masana'antar. "Inda babu hangen nesa ... mutane suna hallaka", in ji ta.

## Ayyuka da bincike

A shekara ta 1979, an fara hayar Ion a matsayin jami'in fasaha a British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL). A lokacin, ita da wata mace ita ce kawai mata da ke aiki a sashen injiniyan sinadarai.

A shekara ta 1992, an kara ta zuwa Babban Darakta na Fasaha,  matsayin da Ion ya rike a cikin kungiyar har zuwa shekara ta 2006.  

A wannan lokacin, ana kallon makamashi na nukiliya ko na nukiliyar a matsayin tushen makamashi mai mahimmanci, tare da masana'antar kwal da ke akwai, da kuma wani bangare mai mahimmanci na sake gina Birtaniya bayan yakin. Ya kasance, a cewar Ion, masana'antu mai ban sha'awa tare da shirin bincike da ci gaba mai ƙarfi da kuma manyan fata. Kamar yadda ta gaya wa Jim Al-Khalili a cikin wata hira ta 2013 ga BBC Radio Four, "Babu wani abu da ya canza ra'ayina game da hakan".

A matsayinsa na darektan fasaha na BNFL, Ion ya rike kujerar Majalisar Kimiyya da Fasaha ta Tony Blair kuma an yaba da shi da shawo kan Blair don canza manufofin gwamnatin Labour game da makamashin nukiliya.

Ayyukan Ion, tare da David King, sun ɗauki kimanin shekaru 10 na ilimantar da jami'an gwamnati don yin la'akari da shaidar kimiyya da ke kewaye da batutuwan makamashin nukiliya da makamashi mai sabuntawa don sanar da manufofi. Ta taimaka wajen ba da shawara ga Gordon Brown kan manufofin makamashi na dogon lokaci.[1]

An zabi Ion a matsayin Fellow na Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) a 1996 kuma ya kasance mataimakin shugaban kasa daga 2002 zuwa 2008. 

A shekara ta 2006, an nada Ion a matsayin farfesa mai ziyara na Kwalejin Imperial   kuma an shigar da shi cikin Fellowship na kwalejin a shekara ta 2005.