In order to capture the high concentration gaseous iodine from off-gas streams under nuclear accident conditions, an advanced activated carbon was prepared by using walnut shell as a raw material and zinc chloride as an activator agent (named WS-ZnCl2). The pore structure and functional groups characteristics of the adsorbent were researched via three techniques including N2 adsorption–desorption isotherms, transmission electron microscope (TEM), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). The Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area,...