Workaround: Set HorizontalScrollBarVisibility property to Visible in order to show the scrollbar: 
<telerik:RadTabControl ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Visible" .../>

or use Loaded event of TabControl and change the Height in order to trigger SizeChanged:
private void xTab_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    this.Height++;
    this.Height--;
}