He studied electrical engineering at the City College of New York (B.S., 1935), and physics at George Washington University (M.S., 1941; advisor was Dr. Edward Teller[2]), and at Catholic University (Ph.D. 1947; Thesis: "Temperature dependence of electron energy levels in solids"[3]) He married Annette Eisenberg in 1951.
Radkowsky was an Orthodox Jew, a תלמוד חכם, finished Shas twice, and wrote several articles on miracles and science.
It was backed by Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University and also by Yitzhak Moda’i, the Israeli Energy Minister who said, “The Israeli Government is very pleased with the designation of New Power Technology to assist us in the development of Dr. Radkowsky’s progressive work in the field of nuclear energy [].
The advisory committee and board of directors were a collection of the world's most famous Manhattan Project and Nobel Prize winning physicists, all willing to lend their names to this humane venture.
Thorium Power participated in the design of the thorium-based fuel to burn plutonium from old nuclear weapons.