I think the second footnote in the Cardone paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1153 ,which Jones cited, provides a solution to the kerfuffle around the proper use of the term fusion: "2The words fission and fusion have been used here. However, it is becoming evident that the outcomes of these piezonuclear reactions experiments, along with those
involving low energy nuclear reactions, have nothing to do with the established definitions of fission and fusion. In this sense, these two words have to be interpreted as disgragation [disaggregation?] of nuclei and union of nuclei respectively. In the following other words will be used like nucleolysis and nucleosynthesis" Harry
