Although there's no doubt some compression of any loaded deuterium in the nitinol system, I suspect that mechanical deformation of the nitinol by way of electrical impulse will not be sufficient to bring deuterons close to one another or to lattice sites by many orders of magnitude.
(One of the reasons I like electric arcing as a motive force is that perhaps it could be strong enough to do something like this for the brief lifetime of the arc.) Eric
