I had the exact same issue in my SDA fabric across the campus on both 9K and 3K series switches to include edge nodes and intermediary nodes. The nodes experienced the same issue even when testing other SW releases too. I had a TAC ticket and several calls with the BU on the issue and they were unable to replicate the issue so the case was left as a monitoring case. Since then we have upgraded both our DNAC and ISE cluster and I have not seen the issue since (knock on wood). To further expand on the issue we were facing:
Switches would have two hung CTS provisioning jobs, and no PACs. The NAD in ISE would show valid PAC, but drop requests. Therefore, as you also mentioned on the NAD itself radius server would be found as dead.
Our workarounds used to temporarily fix the issue relating to our unique scenario in SDA was to go into DNAC, re-provision the device (this re-provision would terminate one of the two hung CTS jobs), then a fresh reboot of device would make the device happy. And by happy I mean no more hung jobs, and it would successfully pull down its PAC from ISE. If you are not running SDA I have found that removing your radius server configs and re-applying may do the trick for you.
I know this does not directly answer your question, but I wanted to share that I have found pretty much the same issue. My recommendation would be to contact TAC to make them aware, work that angle, and potentially test some upgrades. Good luck & HTH!
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